More than 2,000 Afghans rally, denounce Pakistan

More than 2,000 Afghans on friday took out rally in Kabul to mourn and denounce the deadly bombing at a shrine in Kabul that martyred 56 Shia Azadar’s (mourners) and wounded more than 160 people.

The crowd gathered Friday on the west side of Kabul and condemned the attack on the mourners of Imam Hussain in Kabul and Mazar Sharif on the day of

Ashura.

The holiday commemorates the death in the seventh century of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson. His death in a battle outside Karbala in Iraq sealed Islam’s historical Sunni-Shiite split.

The protesters are denouncing Tuesday’s suicide bombing in Kabul. It was the first major sectarian attack in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime a decade ago.

Some of the speakers at the rally blamed neighboring Pakistan for the bombing.