Parents of Kabul school children on Tuesday said they have stopped their children from going to school due to security concerns as voter registration centers are at many schools in the city. 

Meanwhile, a school principle in the western part of Kabul, which was where Sunday’s deadly suicide bombing took place, said the presence of a voter registration center inside his school has led to the absence of almost 40 percent of students. 

“Today ten parents consulted the school and requested me to either announce a holiday or not mark their children as absent until the end of this process,” said Sayed Ghulam Haidar Hussaini, principle of Abdul Rahim Shaheed High School.

Over 6,000 boys and girls are enrolled at this school.  

“Both our families and ourselves are afraid of possible explosions at school,” said one student Behroz.

“Five students go to school from our family, but over the past five days, none of them have gone to school,” said one shopkeeper in Kabul, Assadullah.

But, officials from the ministry of interior have pledged to provide security to the schools. 

“We accept that the presence of voter registration centers inside schools is a problem, we are trying to find alternative places for the centers and also security forces are committed to providing security to these schools,” said interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish. 

Over the past eleven days, at least five attacks have been carried out by insurgents on election-related facilities across Afghanistan. 

Members of the public have meanwhile said that public confidence in the election process will be further damaged if the government does not outline full security measures.