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Sexual harassment increased against Women:IHRC
Members at Independent Human Rights Commission IHRC have stated that sexual harassment has increased against Women in the country, demanding the Ulema and Government to launch serious measurement to decrease such violence.
IHRC members have urged if the practical steps doesn’t pursued to decrease the violence against Women, violence against women will be increased significantly.
Meanwhile officials in Ministry of Haji and Religious affairs have demanded the Ulema to draw the real images of Islam for those who commit violence against women by raising public awareness programs.
Independent Human Rights Commission Suriaya Subrang said,” Violence against women is carried out systematically, and has converted into a common act, we ask the Government to review the life of Women and avoid any violence against Women.”
Minister of Haji and Religious Affairs Faiz Mohammad Usmani said,” We are all responsible to draw the real images of Women from Islam perspective, Ulema have the duty to raise public awareness for the Nation so that they could avoid violence against Women through that program.”
“Violence against women should be stopped, otherwise it will generally impact the whole society, and different law has been in place but none was implemented Minister of Women Affairs Dilbar Nazari said.”
Not implementation law, execution of perpetrators, have caused the violence against women to be increased, though scores of sexual harassment cases has been recorded within the responsible departments but none of the perpetrators were executed.
Reported by Rafi Sediqee
The deputy prime minister for policy, Mawlavi Abdul Kabir, met with Nooruddin Azizi, Acting Minister of Commerce and Industry, at Sapidar Palace on Tuesday and discussed issues around the quality of domestic products and the need to grow and develop the industrial sector.
Azizi said that good trade relations with neighboring countries has resulted in stable prices of goods in the country.
He said the Ministry of Commerce and Industry works closely with the private sector. As a result, the private sector functions in a befitting manner and the Islamic Emirate has provided necessary facilities.
Azizi said that based on the Islamic Emirate’s good economic policies, there has been a significant development in the import/export sector in the country.
Kabir in turn voiced appreciation for efforts by the leadership of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and said: “The unprecedented efforts of the IEA’s administrations and the stability of the Afghan currency caused the price of food ingredients to remain in the right state and our people also be able to buy essential materials.”
He emphasized the need to work for a balance in trade with neighboring countries, and said more efforts were needed to improve the quality of domestic products and to grow the sector.
Russia and Tajikistan conducted a joint four-day military exercise along the border with Afghanistan in order to be prepared for any “potential threats”, Tajik media reported this week.
Russian military personnel from the 201st military base in Tajikistan participated in this exercise. Reports stated military personnel practiced various combat tactics, especially tactics to counter terrorist groups that illegally enter Tajikistan.
This comes amid repeated concerns expressed by Afghanistan’s neighbors about what they claim are terrorist threats originating from Afghanistan.
The Islamic Emirate has not yet commented on the drills but has repeatedly denied the presence of terrorist groups in the country. The IEA has also continuously said no militant group will be allowed to threaten another country from Afghanistan.
The Media Violations Commission has ordered Noor and Barya TV channels to stop broadcasting and to appear in court, state-run Bakhtar News Agency reported on Tuesday.
ّIt is said that the decision against the channels was taken for “not observing the principles of journalism.”
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