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No negotiation table for Afghan women: Afghanistan’s first lady
Afghanistan’s first lady, Rula Ghani in her speech at the center of International Strategic Studies in Washington has said that “There is no negotiation table for Afghan women”.
The wife of newly elected Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has her own office in the presidential palace and intends to play a prominent role in public life.
In a country where women don’t have much of a presence in officialdom — much less a voice — Rula Ghani is the first to play a prominent role as first lady.
Rula Ghani noted the achievements of Afghan women and said, “Afghan women bravely determined their achievements in the past decade and the government of national unity supports it.”
Afghanistan first lady criticized media outlets the way the show Afghan women to the world and emphasized that Afghan women have always shown without the strength and support; While the objective conditions of women in Afghanistan is better compared to what is shown in the medias.
“Symbolically, it would be very important, but practically, what would be best? Is it best to have four very weak women or … one very strong woman? There may have been like 21 ministers that were presented to the parliament, and only nine were accepted. So it’s not that the women were singled out, but they happened to have not passed the test of the parliament, and maybe you need to ask the parliament why.” Rula Ghani said.
Afghanistan’s first lady, Rula Ghani had met her husband, Ashraf, while studying political science at the American University of Beirut. He was an Afghan Muslim; she, a Lebanese Christian.
The construction work of the second phase of the fourth section of the Khaf-Herat railway project, connecting Afghanistan with Iran, has been inaugurated.
The segment is 47-kilometer long, stretching from Rabat Parian to Herat International Airport and the Industrial Town.
It will be constructed at the cost of $53 million and within approximately two years.
Its contract had been signed between Afghanistan Railway Authority and Gamma Group in late March.
Upon its completion, this segment will integrate the Khaf-Herat regional connectivity project with Iran’s significant seaports and facilitate access to Europe via the Turkish railway network.
Iran’s special representative for Afghanistan, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, said that Afghanistan belongs to all Afghans and a government consisting of representatives of all ethnic groups should be established in the country.
“We have clearly stated that Afghanistan is for all Afghans, and if we want to not return to the conditions of Bonn, we must pay attention to this issue,” Qomi said while addressing Afghan refugees in Qom city, ISNA news agency reported.
The envoy emphasized that Iran, while engaging with the Islamic Emirate, also gives its advice to the new rulers of Afghanistan.
“A government consisting of righteous people from all ethnic groups can be the key to political stability and the beginning of construction in Afghanistan, which the Islamic Republic is pursuing the same policy,” he said.
Iran’s special representative for Afghanistan also pointed to Daesh and accused the United States of continuing its interventionist and destabilizing policies in Afghanistan and said: “Today the Americans are doing more evil in Afghanistan than in the past.”
Qomi stated that the cost of America’s interventionist policies in the region are borne by the people of Afghanistan.
Mawlawi Abdul Kabir, the political deputy prime minister, said on Saturday that the visit of high-ranking officials of the Islamic Emirate to countries shows that the Islamic Emirate wants to engage with the world, including neighboring and regional countries, based on political, economic and cultural relations.
He made the remarks in a meeting with Acting Minister of Industry and Commerce Nooruddin Azizi, who recently traveled to Russia’s Tatarstan to participate in an international economic meeting.
Azizi said his trip to Russia was full of achievements in the areas of exports and trade, adding that Russian companies and institutions expressed interest in investing in Afghanistan.
He added that he represented the Islamic Emirate well during the visit and assured the participants of the “Russia-Islamic World: KazanForum 2024” that there is a good opportunity for investment in Afghanistan.
The 15th edition of Kazan Forum was held in Tatarstan with the participation of representatives of 80 nations to discuss economic and social relations.
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