(MENAFN- Pajhwok Afghan News) PUL-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): Hundreds of people on Saturday staged a protest demonstration against Pakistan and called for a ban on local transactions in Pakistani rupees across the country.
Around 400 people took part in the rally in Pul-i-Alam, the provincial capital and were chanting slogans against Pakistan.
Farhad Akbari, one of the rally organizers, told Pajhwok Afghan News that all problems the country faced currently had been created by Pakistan and therefore the government should cut all relations with the neighboring nation.
He said: €œThe government should take serious steps against Pakistan. Since long, Pakistan has been sponsoring suicide attacks and the killing of innocent people in our country.€
Another protestor, Sayed Iqbal, said the government should no longer keep mum over Pakistani aggression and instead react in the same manner. He said now all the world knew Pakistan harbored terrorists.
Some other protesters expressed similar views and urged a ban on Pakistani currency nationwide.
Meanwhile, Saleem Salehi, the governor€™s spokesman, said that peaceful demonstration was people€™s right. He added the protestors handed over a list of questions to the governor€™s house and the queries would be answered under the frame work of law.
Similar protests against Pakistan had emerged in other parts of the country, including central capital Kabul, amid increasing international pressure on Islamabad to act against terrorist groups who stage attacks inside Afghanistan.
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