Sayed Fazel Sangcharaki, spokesman for former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, Karzai's main challenger, rejected those claims as 'part of their (the Karzai's camp's) propaganda.'

'This claim is completely baseless because the result that we have obtained shows that Dr Abdullah got 62 percent and Hamid Karzai got 32 percent,' he said, adding that the figures were provided by their observers in 30 of the country's 34 provinces.

A candidate who was ranked the third most popular candidate by opinion polls ahead of the election criticised the two frontrunners for jumping the gun.

'Those who declare themselves winners are so fond of getting power that they are violating the law,' former planning minister Ramazan Bashardost said. 'According to electoral law, no one can be the victor unless the commission announces so.'

'The are simply making fun of themselves and the international communities who are helping this process,' he charged.