Afghans protest against Pakistan

Afghans protest against Pakistan

Protesters, including women, took to the streets of Kabul on Tuesday, chanting "Death to Pakistan" as Pakistani jets claimed to have carried out airstrikes in panjshir province, a media report said.

The Taliban claimed on Monday that it had seized the last province of Panjshir, which was not under its control after the US-backed government seized control of Afghanistan last month.

Taliban members reportedly fired into the air to disperse protesters, but they are still insurgent, Afghanistan's Khamma news agency reported.

Several men and women chanting anti-Pakistan slogans claimed to have carried out airstrikes in Panjir province in Kabul.

Protesters chanted "Death to Pakistan", "Freedom", "Allah Akbar" and "We do not want to be captured" and gathered at the gates of the Pakistani embassy in Kabul and asked its staff to leave Afghanistan. 

Protesters said they did not want a puppet government in Afghanistan and asked the inclusive government.

Protesters gathered in the province of Panjashir after Ahmed Masood, co-leader of the opposition, called for the Afghan people to resurrect themselves against the Taliban.

According to the report, people in Blakh and Daikundi provinces also took to the streets on Monday night to raise slogans against Pakistan.

Iran has responded to airstrikes in panjshir and called on the foreign ministry to investigate its interference with foreign jets.

Pakistan has often been accused of providing Taliban military assistance to the Afghan government, an accusation that Islamabad has denied.

Lt Gen Faiz Hameed, head of Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), met with Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar  in Kabul last week.

The intelligence chief went to Kabul on an unannounced visit.

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