KABUL, Oct. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- The incumbent Afghan transitional president Hamid Karzai is more convinced that he will go out of the first presidential elections triumphantly next Saturday, after his second and successful trip outside the capital Tuesday.

    "So far I thought I can win, and now I am sure that I'll win the elections," an exceptionally emotional Karzai said at the end of a rally giving to his honor in Ghazni, the capital of the province that shares the same name about 140 km southwest of Kabul."After I return to Kabul, I will not campaign anymore."

    The incumbent president made this remark at the Sanaei Garden in the city where some 10,000 people from across the province poured in, with many of them hoping to show their support for the Pashtun-origin head of state.

    The president, under the escort of two A-10 attackers and four helicopter gunships as well as the accompaniment of several ranking cabinet members, embarked upon the second trip outside the capital after his first trip to Gardez, provincial capital of Paktiya in the south of Kabul, was aborted by a rocket attack latelast month. He was warmly welcomed by about 2,000 local residents at the Garden, and the number of the participants augmented later to nearly 10,000.

    In his warm speech to the audience, Karzai promised that in hisfuture plan, he wanted to see a free, prosperous and rich Afghanistan, "especially, all will get much more dignity they willnot have now in the world."

    "In tomorrow's Afghanistan there will not be guns and cruelties," he went on. "Today we are happy because we are going to democracy. There are different candidates campaigning against each other, but not fighting."

    "I ask your free votes," he repeated twice, striking the same note as usual.

    Gul Nabi, 47, a local private worker, told Xinhua that he will vote for Karzai, because it was Karzai who brought peace to the war-ravaged country.

    "Over the past 25 years, there's no city construction," he said."Under Karzai's rule, the work resumed." He took one hour's leave to participate in the rally in order to express his backing.

    For seven-years-old first grader Ahmad Wasim, it's a perfect occasion where he can show his liking to the incumbent president, although he doesn't have voting right.

    At the president's invitation, the primary school boy sat through the whole rally. "I came to see Karzai, because he is a good man," the boy said.

    For 38-year-old Ghafar, an airplane engineer-turned taxi driver,he will not choose the incumbent as the next president. Like the majority of the population in the province, Ghafar is a Hazari, sohe will vote in Haji Mohammad Mohaqeq's favor, who served as planning minister and represents the Hazaris' interests.

    In another development, Younis Qanooni, the archrival of Karzaiin the polling, held another campaign rally in a stadium in Kabul.More than 4,000 people attended the event. A number of young supporters, chanting "Long Live Qanooni!" and holding high the Tajik politician's posters, walked along a main road inside the city.

    Abdul Rashid Dostum, a powerful warlord from the north who alsoruns against Karzai, also chaired a mass rally in the north, according to sources. Enditem