

The Taliban has so far not included any women in its still-forming government since it seized power in Afghanistan on August 15. You put something on her neck that she cannot carry,” he said.


“The women of Afghanistan are those who give birth to the people of Afghanistan, educates them on Islamic ethics … what a woman does she cannot do the work of a ministry. “It is not necessary for a woman to be in the cabinet,” Hashimi told Afghanistan’s Tolo News in a television interview. It is not necessary for a woman to be in the cabinet, they should give birth & women protesters can't represent all women in AFG." Taliban spokesman Sayed Zekrullah Hashimi flatly denied on September 9 that his organization would include women in its interim cabinet, a body that will oversee the nascent Taliban government’s continued formation.Ī Taliban spokesman on "A woman can't be a minister, it is like you put something on her neck that she can't carry. “To show the new government’s ‘inclusiveness,’ the group will give non-Taliban people opportunities to work for the government,” Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told reporters at a press conference in Kabul on September 21, as quoted by the state-run China Global Television Network (CGTN). This does not appear to be what either the Taliban or Khan have meant when they use the word “inclusive,” as they have both immediately mentioned diverse ethnic groups and non-Taliban groups within Afghanistan before or after using the adjective. Some foreign news outlets seem to have interpreted the Taliban and Khan’s recent use of the word “inclusive” to describe Afghanistan’s future government to mean it would include women. “There will not be any long term, sustainable peace in Afghanistan unless all the factions, all the ethnic groups are represented ,” Khan told the BBC. So terrorism from Afghan soil, and secondly if there is a humanitarian crisis or a civil war, a refugee issue for us,” Pakistan’s prime minister said.Įarlier in the interview, Khan indicated his definition of an “inclusive” government was one which unites “all the factions” vying for power in Afghanistan, including groups outside of the Taliban, and one in which “all the ethnic groups are represented.” “ ideal place for terrorists, because if there is no control or if there is fighting going on. “It will mean an unstable, a chaotic Afghanistan,” he continued That too will impact Pakistan,” Khan told the BBC in a television interview conducted in English and Urdu broadcast on September 21. “If they do not have an inclusive government, and gradually it descends into a civil war, which if they do not include all the factions sooner or later … they will have, again, sort of a civil war.
