Women in Afghanistan protest as death toll in suicide attack on school rises. UN says 53 killed, predominantly girls, in the Kabul incident that has sparked global protests. Latest from MarjanaSadat
in the west of Kabul, the predominantly Hazara region of the Afghan capital, has risen, amid simmering domestic and global anger over the incident.
However, in an unusual step, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan on Monday declared in a tweet that 53 people, at least 46 of whom were girls, were killed and that 110 others were wounded. In a meeting with the special representative of the EU to Afghanistan, Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said ISIS and other similar groups have been suppressed in Afghanistan and have lost the ability to resist.Meanwhile, Inamullah Samangani, head of the regime’s information and media centre, in a tweet quoted a Taliban interior ministry official: “I am ashamed to express my condolences, we could not defend our student boys and girls.
Najla Raheel, who has defended women’s rights as a lawyer in Afghanistan for many years and now lives in Toronto, said she participated in a weekend protest in Toronto in part to make the world aware of the injustice going on in Afghanistan, especially concerning women and Hazaras.
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