Angry Afghan mourners buried on Friday peace broker Burhanuddin Rabbani, as President Hamid Karzai pledge to continue peace efforts despite the assassination.

Angry Afghan mourners buried on Friday peace broker Burhanuddin Rabbani, as President Hamid Karzai pledge to continue peace efforts despite the assassination.

Kabul police deployed thousands of extra officers as part of a lockdown aiming to prevent further attacks as Rabbani supporters threw stones at government vehicles at the burial site in Kabul, and chanted slogans like: “Death to America, death to Pakistan, death to Karzai”.

As he was buried on top of a hill overlooking Kabul, a sea of thousands of people jostled around the coffin waving black flags and placards and continuing to shout slogans alleging a range of conspiracies over the assassination.

A key ally of Karzai, Rabanni was president during the 1992-1996 civil war before becoming chairman of the High Peace Council.
He was assassinated at home in Kabul on Tuesday by a bomber who hid explosives in his turban, and who had purported to be a peace emissary from the Taliban leadership.
He was the most senior national leader killed in Afghanistan since the 2001 US-led-invasion.

For his part, Karzai, who did not attend the burial, insisted that Tuesday's murder would not derail efforts to reach out to insurgents.
"The blood of the martyred (Rabbani) and other martyrs of freedom requires us to continue our efforts until we reach peace and stability," Karzai said.

"We will continue our efforts to reach peace which was the wish of martyred ustad (professor) but at the same time time, we consider it as our responsibility to fight the enemies of peace with determination."
He referred to insurgents as "deceived sons of this country", but Rabbani's supporters said they wanted revenge for his death.