British media have reported that Shaheira Karimi, Rabia Nasimi, and Paymana Asad, three Afghan women who are British citizens and members of the Labour Party, have won in the local council elections in Britain.
Reports indicate that the local council elections in London were held on Thursday and Friday, May 6 and 7.
Paymana Asad, an Afghan-British woman, expressed her happiness about winning in the London local council elections. She wrote on her X account: “It was the hardest election of my life. But I succeeded. I was elected as the representative for the ‘Roxeth’ area for a third term.”
She further emphasized: “This is a message for those who hated me; those who told people I am not a true Muslim, called me a Zionist because my father is a Pashto-speaking Afghan from the south. They referred to me as a Taliban and threatened to kill me for speaking about foreign policy.”
Additionally, Shaheira Karimi, another Afghan-British woman and Labour Party candidate, has been elected as a member of the Ealing City Council in the ‘Pitshanger’ area.
Rabia Nasimi, another Afghan-British woman, was declared one of the three winning candidates in the local council elections in West London, receiving over 1,200 votes.
She wrote on her X account: “I am very proud to have been elected as a member of the Labour Council for East Now, alongside Stephen Donnelly and Hitesh Taylor. This campaign was long and challenging, and I sincerely thank everyone who trusted me and voted for me.”
Rabia Nasimi left Afghanistan with her family in 1999 when she was five years old and migrated to Britain.
These women achieve success in their host country while women and girls in Afghanistan are denied even the most basic human rights. Afghanistan is the only country in the world where girls cannot attend school beyond the sixth grade.
