Afghan voters today headed to the polls to vote in the second round of presidential elections amid tight security measures to choose a successor to incumbent President Hamid Karzai.

Former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abduallah and ex-World Bank expert Ashraf Ghani are up for election in today's run-off presidential vote, after failing to secure the needed 50 percent majority during the first round of voting on April 5.

More than 12 million people are registered to vote at some 6,365 polling centres across the country.
 

Source: BNA