Election officials set up 4,900 polling centers including over 20,000 polling stations across the country.

However, a number of security incidents including militants attacks and bomb blasts, according to eyewitnesses, targeted some polling stations in Kabul and other provinces. Officials have yet to make comment on the incidents.

Taliban militants who have vowed to sabotage the voting are yet to report any attack on polling stations in the country, where more 50,000-strong security forces have been deployed to provide security for the polling.