KABUL, Oct 3: Thousands of people marched through Afghanistan’s capital and a key northern city on Monday as protests against the assassination of a leading candidate in last month’s elections spread across the country.
Unidentified attackers gunned down Ashraf Ramazan and his guard a week ago in northern Mazar-i-Sharif. The Hazara leader was running third in the Balkh province race for a parliamentary seat after the Sept 18 vote.
Around 2,000 people, most of them Hazaras, took to the streets of Kabul, blaming the killing on the rival ethnic Tajik administration of Mazar-i-Sharif.—AFP
