A staff member instructs the Afghans how to fill in the ballots outside a polling station in Kabul Oct. 9, 2004. Voting for the first-ever presidential election in post-war Afghanistan began amid tight security Saturday morning. More than 10.5 million Afghans including over 4 million women are going to some 22,000 polling stations across the country to cast ballots to choose their president. (Xinhua photo)

Afghan women wait in line to cast their votes in a polling station in Kabul, Oct. 9, 2004. (Xinhua photo)

 An Afghan woman casts her vote in a polling station in Kabul Oct. 9, 2004. (Xinhua photo)

An Afghan man fills in his vote in a makeshift separate booth in a polling station in Kabul Oct. 9, 2004. (Xinhua photo)

Afghan interim President Hamid Karzai casts his vote in a polling station in Kabul Oct. 9, 2004. (Xinhua photo)

     KABUL, Oct. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- The first-ever direct presidential election is continuing throughout post-war Afghanistan despite the ink used to mark the voters turned out to be erasable in the first few hours after the poll began on Saturday early morning.

    Reports from different polling stations in the capital city of Kabul as well as several provinces claimed the indelible ink failed to remain, which was used to mark those who have cast their ballots and those not, ensuring the credibility of the poll results.

    The accident gloomed the ongoing process with voting work was interrupted for sometime in several polling stations in Kabul. Voters waiting in a long queue complained about the mistakes. Someeven called for a protest for this.

    "The application of the ink, but the ink is the reason of thismistake," Manoel de Almeida e Silva, the UNAMA spokesman told the press, referring to the polling station workers mixed up differentmarkers for marking the voters and marking the ballots.

    Meanwhile, a representative of rival candidate to incumbent President Hamid Karzai accused the government officials of riggingin the election.

    "It is a fake election as the ink used in marking finger can be deleted easily," said Hajji Mohammad Sadiq, representing AhmadShah Ahmadzai, one of the 16 candidates, at polling stations as observer.

    As per the rule any one votes, his finger marked with indelibleink that could last up to two weeks.

    Ahmadzai, a former anti-Soviet resistance figure, has pledged to implement the Islamic laws if were elected as the president of the country.

    Voting for the first-ever Afghan presidential election began at 7:00 a.m. in the morning would be concluded at 4:00 p.m. throughout a total of 22,000 polling stations.

    Over 10.5 million Afghans are going to cast their votes Saturday in the polls amid tight security provided by around 100,000 personnel of Afghan army, police, US-dominated coalition and NATO-led peacekeeping troops. Enditem