The Afghan national security forces foiled at least 473 major terrorist attack plots during the election day in Afghanistan.

Afghan intelligence – national directorate of security (NDS) chief, Rahmatullah Nabil said Saturday that Lashkar-e-Taiba and Haqqani Network militants were looking to carry out coordinated attacks in various parts of the country during the election runoff day.

Nabil further added that the Afghan national security forces carried out at least 60 military operations to thwart the militants attacks.

He said the militants were looking to carry out at least 1,000 terrorist attacks in six different zones of the country including Kandahar, Helmand and Herat provinces.

In the meantime, Afghan army chief of staff, Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimi said Afghan national security forces managed to thwart the major attack plots by having close coordination.

Gen. Karimi further added that the Afghan security forces suffered casualties mostly due to improvised explosive device (IED) attacks.

He also added that the enemies of Afghanistan suffered heavy casualties during the operations by Afghan security forces.

Afghan national security forces foiled coordinated suicide attack plot in western Nimroz province of Afghanistan.

According to local government officials, at least three suicide bombers were arrested in connection to the attack plot.

Provincial governor spokesman, Ahmad Arab, said the suicide bombers were arrested from Del Aram district on Friday night.

Mr. Arab further added that the suicide bombers were looking to attack a military installation in Del Aram district.

Afghan security forces also confiscated three suicide bombing vests, a vehicle along with explosives and weapons from the detained would-be bombers, local officials said.

The anti-government armed militant groups have not commented regarding the report so far.

   

 At least six people have been killed after a pair of explosions struck the convoy of Afghan presidential frontrunner Abdullah Abdullah.

 
At least 22 people were wounded in the blasts, which occurred shortly after Abdullah left a campaign event in Kabul on Friday. Security officials say at least one of the blasts involved a suicide bomber. Abdullah was not injured, but in a televised statement shortly after the attack he said that two of his bodyguards were wounded.
According to Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Siddiqui, the attack occurred "in the vicinity of a campaign rally." "The [rally] was over and they were out on the way, they came under the attack by a terrorist, a suicide bomber,” he said.

A second bomb went off near the car, Siddiqui added, saying the explosions left six civilians dead and 22 wounded.
President Hamid Karzai condemned the bombings, for which no one immediately claimed responsibility.

Abdullah Abdullah

• Received 45 percent of vote in first round of presidential election on April 5
• Served as Hamid Karzai's foreign minister
• Ran for president in 2009
• Trained as an eye doctor
• Father is Pashtun, mother is Tajik