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Presidential poll in trouble

Artillery attack kills 10 as fighting erupts near Kabul
KABUL. Dec 21: Three shell* slammed into a crowded bazar Ip the Afghan capital Kabul today, killing at least 10 people and injuring 16, eye witnesses said, report Reuter.
At least two children were among the dead, said government soldier Anwar Shah, who carried three of the bodies to a nearby checkpost.
Pools of blood stained streets around the usually busy bazar in central Kabul after hundreds of morning shoppers fled In panic from the attack.
It was not known who fired the shells, but Shah said fighting had erupted early on Monday between government forces and fighters of the for-
merly communist militia.
The two groups have been alite* since the militia defection to the Mujahideen toppled the ex-communist government last April.
Witnesses said at least 10 people were kilted In the attack and 16 Injured, some seriously.
Streets tn the city were de serted. shop windows shattered, and bloodstained shoes and empty baskets scattered around the bazar Kebab sellers ran from their stalls, leaving the meat still roasting.
It was the worst such attack on Kabul since bloody fighting last August between the government and a maverick Mujahideen party, when
thousands, of rockets and artillery shells rained down on the city killing more than 2.500 people
"I am so afraid." said 160-year-oM Masoom. as he wandered through the empty ■treets looking for his brother who was at the bazar at the time of the attack.
At the Interior ministry, some 1.000 delegates to the Hal-o-Aqad assembly, which Is tb choose Afghanistan's first elected president since the 1979 Soviet Invasion, gathered for a second Introductory session.
Interior ministry Ahmed Shah and Noorullah Emad, head of the Ital-o-Aqnd organ-
ising commission addressed the gathering, saying this was a chance for the delegatee to voice their opinions.
Emad was unable to say when the Hal-o-Aqad would convene.
The assembly was due to meet from December 12 to 15 but was delayed by poor organisation and outbursts of fighting around the capital
Seven of the nine parties represented on the fractious leadership council have said they will boycott the assembly, claiming Interim President Burhanuddtn Rabbani has Influenced the selection of representatives and given bribes to delegates.