And on Saturday, at least seven people were killed when suicide bombers tore through a row of mourners who were attending the funeral of one of the protesters, the son of an influential Afghan senator.
A bomb was planted in a motorbike that detonated Tuesday near the Jama Masjid, a large 12th century mosque in Herat city, police spokesman Abdul Ahid Wali Zada told Al Jazeera.
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More than 150 people died in last week's Kabul suicide blast, President Ashraf Ghani said as he opened multi-national talks on bringing peace.
Representatives from 25 countries and alliances, including the U.S., Russia, China, India, Pakistan, NATO and European Union are at the Kabul Initiative Peace and Security Cooperation conference that aims to find an "Afghan-led and Afghan-owned" resolution of the decades-long conflict that has left tens of thousands of people dead.
Kabul-based journalists say although the Jamiat leaders have halted their protest demonstrations for the time being, they turned down an invitation by Ghani for a meeting to discuss the latest situation.
At least 300 people, including women and children, were injured in the explosion, Ghani said while speaking at the Kabul Process meeting.
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The blast comes after a string of recent attacks in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, by the Taliban and ISIS. Previously, India had objected to the Murree Process, which saw Taliban leaders meet with Afghan and Pakistan representatives, in a process that included the USA and China.
"What we have seen is a fragmentation of regional and global consensus on Afghanistan, mainly created by the absence of USA leadership and direction".
So we again call on the Government of Pakistan to propose its agenda and a mechanism for that dialogue which can lead us to peace and prosperity, the Afghan president suggested.
Previous worldwide efforts to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table have failed, but diplomats in Kabul hailed Tuesday's conference as a stepping stone to peace. The Taliban already control or contest more than half of Afghanistan's populated areas, according to American estimates, making it harder for the U.S.to extract itself from its longest ever war.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday accused Pakistan of waging an "undeclared war of aggression" against his country. "This newly established framework will provide the forum required through which other related initiatives can contribute and thereby reinforce overall progress toward peace and stability", said the United Nations envoy.
More than 15 years after the invasion, there appears to be no end to the conflict, with an emboldened Taliban fighting an insurgent campaign against Afghan security forces.
Ghani was addressing representatives from about two dozen countries and worldwide organizations at a one-day peace conference called the Kabul Process.
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