By Zabihullah Moosakhail - Sun May 31 2015, 11:33 am 0 views Email Print President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has decided to appoint four female ambassadors to increase women's role in government. President Ghani has said that as per the Islamic values he defends women rights.

Afghanistan, a word synonym with women oppression and gender brutality! The name alone paints a picture of pathos, ruin, and despotism. A recent mob lynching of a young Afghan woman, who was accused of blasphemy, validates the fact, that the country is nothing more than a banana republic.

The woman, now named as Farkhunda, was beaten to death by a mob in Kabul last week following accusations she had burned a copy of the Koran. The mob of men threw her body off a roof after beating her, ran over it with a car, set it on fire and then threw it into a river next to a well-known mosque in their brutal attack.

In the graphic opening of "Love Crimes," writer Jen Percy interviews an Afghani hymen doctor after her first interpreter refuses to translate the sexual details. There are ledes, and then there are ledes. Percy examines the progress, if minimal, of women's liberation in Afghanistan.

None of the original three female nominees for Afghan cabinet positions have been approved for their roles Afghan women took to the streets of the capital, Kabul, to demand representation in the Afghan government on Tuesday.

Just because for decades many Afghan women have worn shapeless burqas that leave only their eyes showing doesn't mean they can't be fashion-forward. President Mohammed Ashraf Ghani thinks they can: He's pitched world leaders on the idea that Afghanistan is just the place to sew couturiers' latest designs.

In the graphic opening of "Love Crimes," writer Jen Percy interviews an Afghani hymen doctor after her first interpreter refuses to translate the sexual details. There are ledes, and then there are ledes. Percy examines the progress, if minimal, of women's liberation in Afghanistan.

When I returned to Afghanistan nine years ago, I rarely heard terms such as violence against women, women's rights, family violence, forced marriages, underage marriages, family law and so on. But now, nine years later, as the young media grow in Afghanistan, such terms are being discussed broadly and regularly.

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Malalai Joya has to travel with armed guards after her outspoken criticisms of Afghanistan's government