Ghani also assured the Taliban that he will provide them space to open up an office for conducting peace negotiations.
Past attempts at peace talks have failed.
But the Afghanistan Cricket Board issued a strongly worded statement late on Wednesday, cancelling the matches in light of a truck bombing in the city's diplomatic quarter that killed at least 90 people.
"The Kabul Process is meant to reach a consensus with the region and the world for peace in Afghanistan", said presidential spokesman Shah Hussain Murtazawi.
All this is to say that in this backdrop when anger was boiling against Afghan high-ups, a peace moot was planned in Kabul and the U.S. administration was about to announce its new Afghan policy, one can easily understand whose interests these attacks have served.
Pakistan's Ambassador to United Nations, Maleeha Lodhi has urged Afghanistan to stop blaming Pakistan for terror attacks on its soil and instead focus its attention to overcome the deteriorating security situation in the country.
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"Our problem, our challenge, is that we can not figure out what it is that Pakistan wants", he said.
At least eight persons were injured during the protest and hospital officials said most of the wounded had been shot in legs and feet, said the report.
However, the Taliban has been waging a years-long insurgency against the US -backed government in Kabul and controls large swathes of the country.
The statement further stated that 50 more staff members were injured in the attack.
No group has yet taken responsibility for the attack and the death toll could increase, Herat police spokesman Abdul Ahid Wali Zada told Al Jazeera.
Ghani did not explain the dramatic jump but Afghan authorities have played down casualty figures in the past. Afghans also accuse Iran and Russian Federation of helping the Taliban. He said that up to 11,000 foreign militants had allegedly arrived in Afghanistan in the last two years to fight for Daesh. But instead of drawing down, the United States is weighing a request to increase the number of USA troops in the country by up to 5,000, in addition to the 8,500 already deployed in advisory and support roles. His government has claimed that the suicide bombers who attacked a funeral attended by high-level government officials Saturday were financed and trained in Pakistan, charges that Pakistan has denied.
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