Women in Afghanistan will prevail even as the Taliban return: Veteran activist

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SINGAPORE: Veteran Afghan women’s rights activist Fatima Gailani, the most senior female negotiator in the failed Afghan-Taliban peace talks, remains headstrong and hopeful that women will be allowed to participate in public life in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Even as reports surface that Taliban fighters

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has also voiced concern at reports of grave abuses, including summary executions, by the Taliban.

In February 2020, the United States, under the Trump administration, signed a peace deal with the Taliban which called for the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. This US-Taliban peace deal excluded the then-Afghan government. The Taliban have ordered university women to wear an abaya robe and niqab covering most of the face, and has ordered classes to be segregated by sex or at least divided by a curtain. The Taliban's education authority also ordered female students to be taught by other women, but if that was not possible then"old men" of good character could fill in.

Gailani argued the Taliban have no basis to bar women from going to work. She made the case for women who are the breadwinners of their families, including some who are widows. “On what Islamic law you’re preventing them to work? You can’t.” Striking a conciliatory message of peaceful co-existence and national unity, Gailani urged the Taliban to have “an open heart”. “Let’s not see each other as a victor and the one who had fallen. No. We are the people of Afghanistan. We cannot get rid of each other.”

But Gailani emphasised that peace will not happen without an inclusive government. “Only when we see an inclusive government, a fair government, a government that I feel, when my heart calls it ‘this is the Afghan government’, then we can achieve it .”– with no female representation. Analysts point out the Taliban appear not to have changed from its previous rule with the just-announced interim Cabinet being filled by the old guard of Taliban hardliners.

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