RASC News Agency: Afrasiab Khattak, leader of Pakistan’s Awami National Party, declared that supporting and strengthening gender apartheid in Afghanistan will remain a dark chapter in United Nations history. He stated that the organizers of the third Doha meeting cannot absolve themselves of this responsibility. On Wednesday, July 3, Khattak made this statement on his X account following the UN’s exclusion of women from the main agenda of the third Doha meeting.
Khattak further added that Afghanistan remains a prison under the rule of a “savage militant group.” Addressing Rosemary DiCarlo, the UN Deputy Secretary-General and host of the meeting, he asserted that the organizers of the third Doha meeting cannot remain indifferent to the plight of Afghanistani women. This comes as Rosemary DiCarlo, after the conclusion of the Doha meeting, stated that human rights, especially the rights of Afghanistani women and girls, will remain an inseparable part of the UN’s agenda in all discussions.
However, Afghanistani women and civil society were excluded from the main agenda of the third Doha meeting initiated by the UN, and only a few side sessions concerning Afghanistani women were held. Before Khattak’s remarks, Afghanistani women had condemned the meeting as a deal with terrorists and boycotted it. Some even deemed the third Doha meeting invalid.
It is noteworthy that after the two-day Doha meeting, a side meeting was held with the participation of seven women. However, Afghanistani women’s protest movements claimed that the women who participated in this side meeting were opportunists who did not represent Afghanistani women.
