MAZAR-I-SHARIF/ASADABAD (Pajhwok): Like some other provinces, residents of northern Balkh and eastern Kunar provinces also staged rallies on Saturday to push for adding the word “Afghan” to the biometric national identity cards.
In Balkh, thousands of people coming from various parts of Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital, gathered at the Firdousdsi Square on the Kabul, Uzbek, Hazara, Sadat and other tribesmen.
The protestors numbering around 3,000 marched toward the Provincial Council Office, chanting different slogans like “word Afghan applicable to all . . .
