KABUL (SW) – A senior Islamic Emirate official has discarded a UN report on abuses of women’s rights in Afghanistan.
The United States and the Islamic Emirate are responsible for the deteriorating situation of women rights in Afghanistan, a group of independent UN experts said in a statement this week. The statement said that the Islamic Emirate had worsened the situation of women in Afghanistan by using gender-based violence and the United States by freezing Afghanistan’s assets.
Bilal Karimi, a deputy spokesman for the Islamic Emirate, told Salam Watandar that no women or children had been bombed or killed since their rule. According to him, with the rule of the Islamic Emirate in the country, everyone’s rights are equally guaranteed and protected.
Meanwhile, Munaz Mubarez, the founder of one of Afghanistan’s powerful women’s movement and a women’s rights activist, told Salam Watandar that the role of the United States and the Islamic Emirate in respecting women’s rights in Afghanistan is the same.
She added that the United States and its allies came to Afghanistan to promote democracy and human rights, but they set this goal incomplete. According to her, the irresponsible withdrawal of the United States has seriously damaged the rights of women in Afghanistan.
However, the Islamic Emirate claims that no women have been oppressed, killed or bombed in Afghanistan. This is despite reports of the bodies of several women being found on the roads and garbage dumps in the provinces, capital Kabul, Kandahar and Mazar-e-Sharif cities.
On the other hand, most of the dead in Pakistan’s bombardment of Khost and Paktia provinces were also women and children.
ENDS
