Mulla Omar dismisses Afghan elections as 'waste of time'

KABUL: Taliban leader Mullah Omar on Tuesday dismissed key elections due in Afghanistan next year as "a waste of time", posing a major challenge to international efforts to ensure a credible poll.

"As to the deceiving drama under the name of elections 2014, our pious people will not tire themselves out, nor will they participate in it," Omar said in a statement. "Participation in such elections is only a waste of time,nothing more.