This explosion took place on November 11, 2018 when thousands of Kabul residents protested what they called "the government's inaction in preventing the attack of the Taliban group on Malistan and Jaghouri districts in Ghazni province and Khas Uruzgan district in Uruzgan province". They started a march and gathered near the presidential palace. The rally continued until dawn on Monday, when President Ghani accepted some of the protesters' demands through a phone call. After that, people were leaving the gathering place when a suicide attack took place.