Officials from the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice of the interim government have reacted to the recent UN meeting and the concerns expressed by its participants regarding the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan, calling the statements of the meeting’s members baseless.
Saif al-Islam Khyber, spokesperson for the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, stated that the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan are being upheld.
Mr. Khyber emphasized that these statements are “an attempt to mislead public opinion in another way,” asserting that the Islamic Emirate is committed to ensuring the rights of women in Afghanistan.
He added, “Their concerns are actually an effort to change public opinion and impose their negative views; for this reason, they occasionally raise the issue of women to obscure the crises they themselves have created.”
According to Khyber, they are trying to impose their views on the people through this means and hide the crises they have caused themselves.
These remarks come after the United Nations Security Council held a meeting last week regarding Afghanistan, where members expressed concern about the dire situation of women in the country.
