According to Qani, most female officers work in the ministry’s service and inspection departments…reports Asian Lite News
About 2,000 female security officers currently serve in Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior, local media reported.
“No employee or member of the Ministry of Interior, especially female police officers, will face any personal or official threats due to their duties in the previous administration,” said Abdul Mateen Qani, spokesman for the ministry.
According to Qani, most female officers work in the ministry’s service and inspection departments, reports Xinhua, quoting the TOLO news agency.
A few months back, a Taliban-led Afghan government announced the ratification of ‘Law on the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice’, with 35 articles detailing significant restrictions on the Afghan population with arbitrary and potentially severe enforcement mechanisms.
The so-called law imposes dress codes, notably ordering women to cover their bodies and faces in public. The decree also imposes that the voices of women must not be heard in public, which effectively deprives Afghan women of their fundamental right to freedom of expression.
Humanitarian aid
The Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) distributed humanitarian aid to more than 1.4 million people across the war-torn Afghanistan during the past year, an official said on Saturday.
“Over 1,430,000 vulnerable and affected people received financial, food, and non-food aid during the past year,” Abdul Latif Sabit, deputy secretary general of ARCS, said at a government accountability programme to brief the nation on the administration’s achievements, Xinhua news agency reported.
The Afghan government stressed the need to provide work and employment opportunities for the vulnerable to help them become self-sufficient.
According to the annual report of the Afghan Red Crescent Society, about 2,212 children suffering from ventricular septal defects received treatment, and nearly 6 million other patients received health services during the past year.
The Afghan caretaker government has vowed to improve public services, including the health sector, throughout Afghanistan, as people lack adequate health access in most parts of the country.
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