The walk was activated by an auto bomb in Helmand on March 23 that executed no less than 14 individuals and injured handfuls. No gathering asserted duty.
Many Afghan peace marchers arrived depleted in the capital, Kabul, on Monday in the wake of spending the fasting month of Ramadan crossing the sun-heated, war-torn nation, quite a bit of it under Taliban control.
The marchers, all men, including educators, understudies and war casualties on supports and one out of a wheelchair, were invited en route by town ladies conveying the heavenly Koran, men singing and moving or offering bread and yogurt, some in tears.
"I saw and learnt things that I had never thought of," said Iqbal Khayber, 27, a restorative understudy from Helmand.
"We met individuals in zones controlled by the Taliban and in regions under government control - everybody is extremely tired of war."
The walk was activated by an auto bomb in Helmand on March 23 that murdered no less than 14 individuals and injured handfuls. No gathering asserted obligation.
Mr. Khayber said the marchers, fluctuating in number from everyday, would take fundamental streets and a few times transform into towns, picking risky zones deliberately to attempt to go up against individuals' dread.
"We saw individuals experiencing immense agony the war ... Truly, my soul doesn't give me a chance to quiet down. It harms me and I ask myself: why we didn't begin working for peace prior?"
Before Ramadan, the marchers were strolling 30 to 35 km daily, yet amid the fasting month, when they couldn't take nourishment or water amid sunshine hours, they eased back to 20 to 25 km for every day.
In one territory of Ghazni region, they were advised by the Taliban not to enter a zone since it was excessively unsafe.
"We met Taliban warriors and after a presentation, they revealed to us we shouldn't have come here in light of the fact that the territory is planted with bombs and they had arranged an assault.
"Following quite a while of exchange with them, they appeared to be sick of everything, and the war. They guided us back to the most secure zone."
Mohammad Yasin Omid (24), an educator from Zabul area, said he joined the walk on its multi day.
"The gathering had just strolled for 15 days. When I saw their draining and rankled feet, I couldn't control my tears so I chose to go along with them."
The Taliban are battling to remove remote powers, overcome the U.S.- sponsored government and reestablish sharia, or Islamic law, after their ouster by U.S.- drove powers in 2001.
Be that as it may, Afghanistan has been at war for four decades, as far back as the Soviet attack in 1979.
Both the administration and the activists pronounced transitory truces for the finish of-Ramadan Eid al-Fitr occasion, prompting embraces and selfies between the two sides as aggressors rose up out of their forts to enter towns and urban communities.
The Taliban truce finished on Sunday. The legislature expanded its truce with the Taliban, which had been because of end on Wednesday, June 20, by 10 days.
The counter war marchers said they won't stop in Kabul.
"We got bolster from the general population in Kabul as we had expected," said marcher Badshah Khan.
"Presently we will have sit-ins in tents and keep strolling to different regions to get more help."
Many Afghan peace marchers arrived depleted in the capital, Kabul, on Monday in the wake of spending the fasting month of Ramadan crossing the sun-heated, war-torn nation, quite a bit of it under Taliban control.
The marchers, all men, including educators, understudies and war casualties on supports and one out of a wheelchair, were invited en route by town ladies conveying the heavenly Koran, men singing and moving or offering bread and yogurt, some in tears.
"I saw and learnt things that I had never thought of," said Iqbal Khayber, 27, a restorative understudy from Helmand.
"We met individuals in zones controlled by the Taliban and in regions under government control - everybody is extremely tired of war."
The walk was activated by an auto bomb in Helmand on March 23 that murdered no less than 14 individuals and injured handfuls. No gathering asserted obligation.
Mr. Khayber said the marchers, fluctuating in number from everyday, would take fundamental streets and a few times transform into towns, picking risky zones deliberately to attempt to go up against individuals' dread.
"We saw individuals experiencing immense agony the war ... Truly, my soul doesn't give me a chance to quiet down. It harms me and I ask myself: why we didn't begin working for peace prior?"
Before Ramadan, the marchers were strolling 30 to 35 km daily, yet amid the fasting month, when they couldn't take nourishment or water amid sunshine hours, they eased back to 20 to 25 km for every day.
In one territory of Ghazni region, they were advised by the Taliban not to enter a zone since it was excessively unsafe.
"We met Taliban warriors and after a presentation, they revealed to us we shouldn't have come here in light of the fact that the territory is planted with bombs and they had arranged an assault.
"Following quite a while of exchange with them, they appeared to be sick of everything, and the war. They guided us back to the most secure zone."
Mohammad Yasin Omid (24), an educator from Zabul area, said he joined the walk on its multi day.
"The gathering had just strolled for 15 days. When I saw their draining and rankled feet, I couldn't control my tears so I chose to go along with them."
The Taliban are battling to remove remote powers, overcome the U.S.- sponsored government and reestablish sharia, or Islamic law, after their ouster by U.S.- drove powers in 2001.
Be that as it may, Afghanistan has been at war for four decades, as far back as the Soviet attack in 1979.
Both the administration and the activists pronounced transitory truces for the finish of-Ramadan Eid al-Fitr occasion, prompting embraces and selfies between the two sides as aggressors rose up out of their forts to enter towns and urban communities.
The Taliban truce finished on Sunday. The legislature expanded its truce with the Taliban, which had been because of end on Wednesday, June 20, by 10 days.
The counter war marchers said they won't stop in Kabul.
"We got bolster from the general population in Kabul as we had expected," said marcher Badshah Khan.
"Presently we will have sit-ins in tents and keep strolling to different regions to get more help."
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