'All fundamental rights as per Islamic rules': Taliban’s Women’s Day message
India Today
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is committed to providing a secure environment to deliver the legitimate needs and demands of women, Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen said.
On International Women’s Day, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan had a message for women - that they are ‘committed to providing a secure environment to deliver the legitimate needs and demands of women’.
“On the occasion of International Women’s Day, I would like to say, women have all their fundamental rights as per the Islamic rules. They can avail that. The IEA is committed to providing a secure environment to deliver their legitimate needs and demands,” Afghanistan’s Permanent Representative-Designate to the UN and the Taliban’s spokesperson Suhail Shaheen tweeted.
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, I would like to say, women have all their fundamental rights as per the Islamic rules. They can avail that. The IEA is committed to providing a secure environment to deliver their legitimate needs and demands.
This comes less than two months after the Taliban forces used pepper spray to disperse a group of women protesting in Kabul, demanding rights to work and education, news agency AFP had reported.
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Since seizing control of Afghanistan in a stunning sweep to power last August by overthrowing a democratically elected government headed by President Ashraf Ghani, the Taliban had quashed any possibility of a woman being included in its government and imposed crippling restrictions on women. A spokesperson had also controversially said that women should only restrict themselves to giving birth to children.
Amid protests and outrage over the Taliban’s all-male government since taking over Afghanistan, Taliban spokesperson Sayed Zekrullah Hashimi, in an interview to Tolo News, had said, “A woman can't be a minister, it is like you put something on her neck that she can't carry.”
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