Ousted King, Son Speak Up for Women
The son of Afghanistan’s former monarch said he will join a daylong fast today to promote women’s rights in Afghanistan.
Mirwais Zaher, in an interview with Associated Press Television News on Friday, also read a message by his father to the Afghan people calling for the participation of women in the country’s political life.
“Let us work together toward a not too distant future when we will see the direct collaboration of Afghan women in the reconstruction and development of our country,” said the message by Mohammad Zaher Shah, 87.
“A society which excludes women’s vision is a blind society,” the former king’s message said.
Zaher Shah, was ousted in 1973 and has been living in exile in Rome.
The former king, who in 1964 gave women the vote, sent two women in his delegation to power-sharing talks in Germany this week.
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