Kabul — Hundreds of chanting Afghans protested on Friday, demanding President Ashraf Ghani’s government resign after this week’s devastating truck bomb attack in Kabul. More than 1,000 demonstrators, many carrying pictures of victims, squared off against police who fired into the air to keep them back. The protesters rallied near the site of Wednesday’s blast, which killed more than 80 people and wounded 460, holding Ghani and CE Abdullah Abdullah responsible. Police in riot gear used water cannon and tear gas to block the protesters, many throwing stones, from gaining access to the road leading to the presidential palace, occasionally firing automatic weapons into the air. Wednesday’s attack, at the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, was one of the worst in Kabul since the US-led campaign to topple the Taliban in 2001 and underlined the growing violence across much of the country. "The international community has to put pressure on them and force them to resign," said Niloo...
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