PESHAWAR, March 10: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (Rawa) has said that in the presence of fundamentalists warlords in Afghanistan no serious issue , including the freedom and prosperity of women and men, can be solved even if more ministries and commissions were created for women.

Speaking at a gathering held here on Wednesday by Rawa in connection with the International Women's Day, Rawa members said that after the US attacks and installation of the interim government, the women's banner was raised but in actuality women were still deprived of their rights and could not go to educational institutions and workplaces.

Suhaila, a Rawa member, said that the women's ministry and various commissions were created. A few women became so-called authorities but even after the passage of two years time, the women of Afghanistan had not seen any vital change for their betterment.

Maryum another Rawa member said that no change is visible in the lives of women in Afghanistan and they still feel insecure and undergo oppression. "Out of extreme suffocation and terror in Herat which is in the grip of Ismail Khan, hundreds of girls and women have committed suicide by self-immolation in less than a year to free themselves of the freedom-killing regime", Shehla another Afghan woman said.

The speakers also criticized the fake nature of the constitutional Loya Jirga and freedom of speech in Afghanistan as it was visible from the cheap remarks of some of the members in the assembly on the women delegates, Malalai Joya and Anarkali who had the courage to call the fundamentalists 'criminals' and called for their national and international trials.

The speakers criticized the members of Loya Jirga for its infection with the germs of the fundamentalism and said that the constitution had not abolished the various crimes against women in the name of religion and tradition.