The bombing erupted hours before Taliban leaders and UN officials met in Qatar to discuss peace in Afghanistan.
At least 11 civilians have been killed in northern Afghanistan when a car bomb exploded, officials said on Sunday, blaming the Taliban for planting a roadside bomb.
Husamudim Shams, governor of the northern province of Badgis, said those killed on Saturday included three children.
Eleven people were on their way to the city of Qala-e-Naw when they were killed, he said.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
It was just hours before Taliban leaders and United Nations officials met in Qatar on Saturday to discuss peace in Afghanistan, the security of spies and civilians working in Afghanistan.
A Taliban spokesman said in a statement on Twitter that Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, Taliban’s deputy prime minister, had “made a strong commitment to Afghanistan’s peace at the summit” by UN officials.
As the Taliban asserted security for all UN staff and spies in Afghanistan, Afghan officials denounced the Taliban’s ongoing civil war and civilian casualties in an attempt to seize more territory.
In a 22-page report to the UN Security Council on Friday, a group of Taliban analysts blamed on a number of threats to security forces, judges, government officials, human rights activists and the media in recent months.
The attacks “appear to be taking place with the intent to weaken the power of the state and to intimidate government agencies,” the group said.
It added that the departure of US and NATO troops by September 11, the anniversary of the 2001 uprising in the United States, “would challenge the Afghan military by banning flights with fewer drones and radars and monitoring, reduction of weapons and ammunition,” such as and disrupt education “.
At least 1,800 Afghans were killed or injured in the first three months of 2021 in clashes between government forces and Taliban freedom fighters despite efforts to secure peace.
