Qatar calls on Taliban to respect women's rights
Qatar said that the gains women made under the previous Afghan government should not be undone by the Taliban, which is notorious for its treatment of women.
Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani called on the Taliban to respect Afghan women’s rights on Wednesday.
“His excellency called on the Taliban to declare its policies towards women and the necessity of working with this case in agreement with the rights guaranteed to women,” the official Qatar News Agency reported on Thani’s remarks.
The diplomat also stressed that the Taliban must enable women to exercise their rights “without reversing what has been achieved” in reference to the relatively improved state of women’s rights under the previous internationally recognized Afghan government.
The Taliban captured nearly all of Afghanistan last month amid the US military withdrawal from the country, which wrapped up this week. The radical Islamist group previously ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 until a US-led invasion toppled them after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
