Afghani President Hamid Karzai announced that the country's landmark elections would be held in September, three months later than originally scheduled. Afghanistan was due to hold democratic elections in June 2004 under the Bonn peace accords drawn up in late 2001 following the fall of the Taliban. But that date was no longer considered viable given slow registration of voters and security worries. Karzai acknowledged that Afghanistan had experienced serious factional fighting over the past week, in which fell victim Aviation Minister Mirwais Sadiq killed in the western city of Herat.

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