<span style="color: #222222;">In Afghanistan, voting in parliamentary elections has been extended amid technical problems with a recently introduced biometric verification system and poll-related violence. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Afghans went to polls today with more than 2,500 candidates, including many women, contesting for 250 seats. Nearly nine million voters are eligible to exercise their right to franchise. Meanwhile, a suicide attacker blew himself up at a Kabul polling centre today, killing at least 13 people. </span>