The organizers could not be immediately contacted for comment on Chakhansuri’s statement.
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At least 231 people were wounded in the attack.
“This attack is particularly heinous because it targeted civilians as they exercised their rights to freedom of assembly and freedom of expression”, the statement read.
The United Nations, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry and the U.S. Embassy in Kabul each released statements condemning the attack.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani recently announced a major assault in the Nangarhar province along the country’s eastern border with Pakistan.
The grief of burial was also tinged with anger at the government.
The Islamic State is claiming responsibility for killing dozens of people and wounding more than 100 during a peaceful demonstration in Kabul by a minority group Saturday.
He said the Enlighten Movement wished to have its own representatives, as well as others from global human rights organizations, involved in a commission Ghani has established to investigate the incident.
The bombing occurred as members of the Hazara, a Persian-speaking minority group in the Sunni-dominated country, held protests calling for a new power line to be re-routed to a Afghan region with a large Hazara populace.
Afghan men remove the clothes of victims after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan July 23, 2016. As well as the more than 80 dead, some 230 people were injured.
At least 61 people were killed and more than 200 wounded Saturday when attackers detonated explosives amid a huge crowd of peaceful protesters in the Afghan capital, majority from the country’s Shiite ethnic Hazara minority, health and police officials said. Most of the population is Sunni.
Grieving family members prepared funerals, searched for missing relatives and picked through an assortment of bloody belongings on Sunday, one day after two explosions tore through crowds of Shiite Hazara protesters in Kabul. “The third attacker was gunned down by security forces”, the statement added.
A peaceful protest that was carried out in Kabul did not let the Afghan capital remain peaceful.
The Taliban and Islamic State have been locked in frequent battles in Afghanistan since January 2015.
“We stand by the Afghan authorities in the fight against terrorism and call on all Afghans to stay united in support of the efforts to fight this global threat”, the European Union statement said. He said 15 people from his village were killed in the attack.
The incident took place yesterday afternoon as thousands of demonstrators gathered at the Dehmazang Circle in the capital to protest against government’s planned routing of the 500kV power line project.
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There was also confusion about the exact nature of the attack, with many witnesses claiming the suicide bombers had been supplemented with explosives contained in an ice-cream cart.
