Afghanistan: Hunger strike ends after Ulema council intervenes

A starvation strike that called for peace in Afghanistan’s southern province has ended after the country’s Council of Spiritual Students, recognized as the Ulema Council, vowed to abet attain a deal between the authorities and Taliban. 

The strike, a desperate expose to accumulate the Taliban and Afghan authorities attain a peace deal, started tiring on Thursday within the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, after bigger than 20 of us were killed by a automobile bomb blast originate air a sports stadium on March 23.

Activists pitched tents at the area of the attack, where Afghan men, females and teens were retaining a sit down-in starvation strike. At the very least 12 of us were hospitalised earlier than the people of the Ulema Council intervened to end the strike. The sit down-in will proceed, nonetheless.

« Early morning this day [Sunday], people of the council visited our tents and sat with us promising that we’re going to work collectively on a peace notion to most modern to the authorities and the Taliban, » Abdul Salam, a protester, informed Al Jazeera.

« We hope to come with a notion as rapidly as likely with the strengthen of the Ulema, » Salam talked about.

Afghanistan suffered bigger than 10,000 civilian casualties in 2017, as lethal assaults killed and injured extra of us than any old year within the war-torn country, in step with the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan’s annual report.