“Save Afghan Women”: Hundreds Join In Protest At Delhi’s Jantar Mantar

New Delhi:

Practically 100 individuals gathered at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar this night to specific their solidarity with the Afghan group within the nation because the Taliban seized management of Afghanistan.

College students, principally girls, raised slogans and carried posters demanding assist for the Afghan girls and youngsters as Afghanistan’s capital metropolis Kabul fell to the militia final Sunday.

With placards of “Save Afghan Ladies”, they sought to lift their voices for the ladies who’re getting ready to shedding their hard-earned rights.

Chatting with NDTV, one of many protesters Sadaf mentioned, “I’m right here to lift my voice for the Afghan girls who’re in want. Their voices have been taken away by the Taliban. No matter guarantees are made by the Taliban are all false. They don’t seem to be allowed to work, not allowed to step out of the home with out a man escorting them, they’re stored as intercourse slaves, married forcibly. The kids and girls are essentially the most susceptible.”

“I really feel fortunate and grateful that India has given us shelter and a spot to remain. My kin are caught in Afghanistan. So many have been displaced,” she mentioned.

Even because the Taliban, at a press convention final week, reassured the world that they’ve modified, their message of moderation was contradicted by the protesters whose households stay caught in Afghanistan.

Zara, an Afghan refugee residing in Delhi, mentioned, “My household is caught in Kabul since final Sunday. Day by day one thing new is going on. They (Taliban) are checking homes. Individuals who have been working for 15-20 years with the US have been searched. That is their rule. In the event that they discover out somebody is working with a overseas authorities, they’ll kill them.”

Talking in regards to the atrocities unleashed on her nation by the militia, she mentioned, “60% of our individuals have been working with the US as a result of they’ve been in Afghanistan for a very long time. The Taliban discover out in regards to the males and kill them. They then marry the ladies off or maintain them for themselves and kill the youngsters.”

“Day by day I get information that both my neighbor has been shot or a relative is useless. How can somebody sleep at night time peacefully or maintain a straight thoughts if you’re ready for somebody to knock on the door and are available shoot you within the head?”

Final Thursday, an Afghan lady journalist mentioned she was barred from working at her TV station after the Taliban took management of the nation, and pleaded for assist in a video posted on-line, reported information company AFP. Sporting a hijab and exhibiting her workplace card, well-known information anchor Shabnam Dawran mentioned “our lives are underneath menace” within the clip on social media.

Many international locations, together with India, have opened their borders for Afghans determined to flee one other Taliban rule. India has introduced a brand new class of digital visas – “e-Emergency X-Misc Visa” – to fast-track purposes from Afghans who want to go away the Taliban-controlled nation.

Hundreds of individuals, determined to flee the land-locked nation, have been thronging the Kabul Airport since August 15 after the Taliban seized the capital metropolis.