He also said that Enlighten Movement members would participate in the investigation commission.
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According to UNAMA, one suicide attacker detonated his device among the demonstrators while police reportedly shot and killed a second attacker.
Putin expressed his sympathy and support to the families of those killed and wished the soonest recovery to those injured by extremists.
The National Directorate of Security, Afghanistan’s main intelligence agency, said the attack was masterminded by Abu Ali, an IS commander in Nangarhar’s volatile Achin district.
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul also issued a condemnation.
While describing such moves “inhumane” and “non-Islamic”, Ghasemi added “as we have stated numerous times, without cooperation and common understanding among all countries in the global community, the eradication of the scourge of terrorism will never be possible”.
So-called Islamic State says it was behind the carnage, targeting the mainly Shi’ite Hazara minority.
An Afghan official says the death toll in the bombing of a mass protest in Kabul has risen to 61.
Dr. Waheed Majroeh, the head of worldwide relations for the Ministry of Public Health, says Saturday that 207 people were also wounded by the blast, which was claimed by the Islamic State group.
President Ashraf Ghani declared a national day of mourning and vowed revenge, while the top United Nations official in Afghanistan, Tadamichi Yamamoto, condemned the attack as a war crime.
The May march was attended by Hazara political leaders, who were notable by their absence on Saturday.
A statement from the interior ministry said 80 people had been killed and 231 wounded, making it among the deadliest single incident since the Taliban were driven from power.
In the meantime the Ministry of Public Health has said the death toll was likely to rise “as the condition of numerous injured is very serious”. The bombing targeted a peaceful protest in Kabul, where thousands of the country’s Shia Muslim minority gathered in opposition to a new power line which they said bypasses the provinces where many of them live.
Afghan riot police stand guard as protesters shout anti-government slogans during a demonstration in Kabul.
The rights group Amnesty International said the “horrific attack … demonstrates the utter disregard that armed groups have for human life”.
Hazaras are predominantly Shiite Muslims, and IS views all Shiites as apostates.
This attack was the deadliest in Kabul since 2011 when twin blasts in Kabul and Mazar-i Sharif killed 60 people, majority Hazaras who had gathered to commemorate Ashura.
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Protesters are demanding that the 500-kilovolt transmission line from Turkmenistan to Kabul be rerouted through the central province of Bamiyan, which has a large Hazara population. He had no further details.
