"What will it take to convince Pakistan that a stable Afghanistan helps them", Ghani told the conference that was attended by Pakistan's Additional Secretary Tasnim Aslam.
The most vital issue is the political crisis in Kabul.
The government, however, insisted the Haqqani Network - which rarely propagates their attacks in the media like the Taliban of Daesh - were behind the attack.
Rabbani is the head of head of Jamiat-e Islami, the party behind Abdullah. It was the United States that brokered the coalition after disputed elections in 2014 led to political stalemate. While he spoke, demonstrations continued outside on the streets of Kabul. However, in the present environment with Afghans so disunited, such a scenario appears equally unworkable. It was a tragic incident and a point of concern for global community as well.
The tensions, which have worsened in the absence of a clear direction from Washington, have complicated the situation facing US President Donald Trump's administration as it works out its policy approach to Afghanistan.
US military commanders have proposed sending 3,000 to 5,000 more advisers to Afghanistan in a bid to break the "stalemate".
"Our problem, our challenge, is that we can not figure out what is it that Pakistan wants".
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Recognising Pakistan's "legitimate" regional security interests, he said they have offered appropriate guarantees of neutrality and continue to make an unconstrained offer for a state-to-state peace dialogue. We will not get drawn into a blame game. Many shops in Kabul have been closed for the past week amid fears of looting.
The blast, caused by an explosives-laden sewage tanker, was one of the worst in Kabul's recent history.
Speaking to the participants, Ghani said the attacks in Afghanistan were part of the violence that had struck foreign cities around the world, most recently in London, where three militants drove a van into pedestrians on Saturday before attacking people with knives.
The bombing was followed by days of demonstrations condemning the government for incompetence. At least four people were killed during the protests in clashes with police.
Kabul has been on edge since a truck bombing last Wednesday in the highly fortified diplomatic quarter killed at least 90 people and wounded hundreds, the deadliest attack in the city since 2001.
"The program has expanded from individual attacks to group ones", he said. Ghani was referring to the bold step he had taken by visiting Pakistan amid tense ties when he took charge in September 2014.
He asserted that the Taliban, and Afghans in general, would welcome any peace conference that is organized for ending the "occupation" of their country because all other gatherings would be "futile and unproductive". But without U.S. leadership, which has "owned" Afghanistan since 11 September 2001, there is little that other states can do or would even be willing to do.
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