Mourners at a funeral and babies at a maternity ward were among the nearly 200 killed and injured Tuesday in militant attacks in Afghanistan.
In a separate attack in Nangarhar province, a suicide bomber attacked the funeral of a local police commander in the eastern province of Nangarhar, leaving at least 32 people dead and more than 68 wounded during what was the deadliest day of the year so far.
President Ashraf Ghani condemned the attacks, in which innocent civilians, including women and children had been killed.
“For the protection of our country, its people, public places, state infrastructure and dismantling future Taliban and Daesh attacks, I command security forces to come out of defensive position and adopt offensive posture,” said Ghani during an address to the nation on National Radio Television.
Since the agreement was signed, the Taliban has carried out 3,712 terrorist attacks that have killed almost 500 civilians, said Afghanistan’s intelligence agency on Wednesday.