Women take to streets in Afghanistan

Female residents of Kabul have again taken to streets as part of a protest rally, Report informs referring to RIA Novosti.

One of the rally participants said that the women were carrying posters with a portrait of Negar Masumi, a prison officer killed in her eighth month of pregnancy in Ghor province. A Taliban spokesman denied information about their involvement in Masumi’s death.

Participants in the march demand to ensure the participation of women in governing the country, while the Taliban, having announced the composition of the interim government a day earlier, virtually ruled out such a possibility. “The Cabinet of Ministers is incomplete without the participation of women in its work. No government can exclude women. Women’s rights cannot be neglected,” the participants of the rally said.

The Taliban are trying to interfere with the march, which began in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood of Kabul.

This is not the first rally in which Afghans express dissatisfaction with the policies of the new authorities.