Hours after Ghani's statement, a bomb blast on Tuesday killed at least seven people in Herat, Afghan police said.
"Such attacks won't change India's unwavering stand on terror", Manpreet Vohra, India's Ambassador in Kabul, told The Hindu over the phone, confirming that no one had been injured by the rocket that fell just outside his residence.
Afghanistan's president says the death toll from last week's massive suicide truck bombing in Kabul has surpassed 150, making it the deadliest single attack in the 16 years since the USA invaded to topple the Taliban.
Ghani also warned the Taliban to embrace peace or "face consequences".
Afghan leaders met officials of two dozen foreign governments and institutions on Tuesday, launching a so-called Kabul Process aiming to set the stage for peace talks and clinch an worldwide pact to end "cross-border terrorism".
An global peace conference began in the Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday with a minute-long silence in remembrance of terror victims as the death toll in last week's truck bombing rose sharply to 150.
A spokesperson for the Afghan ministry initially told NBC News in the aftermath of the blast that at least 80 people had been killed, although that figure has now risen significantly. Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, say that the group was not involved in the attack.
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Pakistan's top military commanders on Tuesday urged the Afghan government to "look inward and identify the real issues", instead of blaming Islamabad for every terrorism incident.
"We're fighting 20 transnational terrorist groups on your behalf", Ghani said.
The United States officially withdrew from Afghanistan in 2014, but it maintains a presence of about 8,400 troops there.
Despite heightened tensions, the government said it was determined to proceed with the peace conference Tuesday, rather than be seen to be giving in to terrorism.
"If the Taliban wants to join peace talks, the Afghan government will allow them to open an office, but this is their last chance", he said.
An Islamic State group affiliate has meanwhile emerged and carried out several large attacks.
He asserted that the Taliban, and Afghans in general, would welcome any peace conference that is organized for ending the "occupation" of their country because all other gatherings would be "futile and unproductive".
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