KABUL - As widespread clashes between Taliban and Afghan security forces continue in the war-hit city of Kunduz, displaced families, who fled over the past 13 days, on Saturday staged a demonstration in Kabul in an effort to mount pressure on government do more in a bid to clear the strategic town from the Taliban.

Protesters blocked several roads connecting the presidential palace and office of the chief executive to traffic and chanted slogans against Pakistan and the Taliban.

They asked government to act and clear the city from Taliban so that displaced families could return to their homes.

"We come so that they {government} hear our voice and address our hardships and clear Kunduz city from Taliban," a protestor Haseebullah said.

"Ashraf Ghani must address our concerns," another woman protester said, warning that if government failed to meet their demands, they will ask their men to join the Taliban and Daesh.

Some other protesters accused the government of not been able to provide necessary aid to displaced families.

"Government does not have information about the situation facing the displaced families. Dead bodies are lying on the ground and our wounded people were bombed at hospitals," protester Zabiullah said.

Meanwhile, some Afghan lawmakers in parliament have also blamed government of negligence over the issue of displaced Kunduz people.

Kunduz city collapsed to the Taliban nearly two weeks ago after the group's fighters backed with heavy and light weapons launched a major offensive from three directions. The collapse of Kunduz is said to be one of the major gains Taliban has made over the past fourteen years since a US-led NATO coalition toppled the regime in 2001. (Tolonews)