Up to 5 demonstrators, among them the son of a prominent Afghan politician, died in clashes with the local police the first day of the demonstrations last Friday.
The press reports said that the demonstrations -supported by a series of opposition outstanding figures- demand the resignation of President Gani, the chief of the Executive, Abdula Abdullah, and the Ministers of Defense and Interior, because of their ‘incapacity to handle the current crisis.
Analyzing Assessing the current state of events and fearing a greater political crisis and lack of security, Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi, president of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) approved a suggestion of legislators to form a Parliamentary Committee to mediate between the protesters and the government.
The Assembly decided to nominate a member for each province, a total of 34, for that Committee.
‘The protest is the democratic right of all, but they must not block public roads, which affects the daily life of hundreds of thousands of people daily’, said Nawab Mangal, a member of the Parliament.
The demonstrations were started by local civil society activists, but after the death of Salim Ezidyar -son of a politician associated with the Jamiat-e-Islami Party- in clashes with the police, became a politically loaded movement, backed by the Jamiat and other formations of the opposition movement.
Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani, who is also the president in functions of the Jamiat-e-Islami Party, kept away from a conference called ‘Initiative of Kabul for Peace and Security Cooperation.’
Rabbani and other figures of the Jamiat like Atta Mohammad Noor, governor of the province of Balkh are maiking pressure on Gani, for him to expel his national security advisor, Mohammad Hanif Atmar, something that the President rejected.
