Posted on 11/16/2005 7:29:26 AM PST by eyespysomething
Female candidates have triumphed in Afghanistan's parliamentary elections, with one bidding to become the new parliament's speaker.
After a delay in counting of more than a month, official results show women secured seats ahead of male candidates in a quarter of the 34 provinces, while in one a woman was outright winner.
Before September's parliamentary vote, the first for 30 years, there had been widespread predictions that, due to the conservatism of Afghan society, women would only gain seats through a quota system which automatically reserved 25 per cent of seats for them under the country's new constitution. But women won seats in their own right and will take up 68 of the 249 in the lower house when it convenes later this month.
Remnants of the Taliban responded to the results by detonating two suicide bombs in Kabul, killing a German peacekeeper and three Afghans. British troops opened fire to repel a threat to their camp in the capital.
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I wonder if I'd be brave enough to risk my life and the lives of my family to help make these important differences in my country's direction.
God bless these women and all those who are stepping forward and breaking off the chains of oppression they have suffered under for so long. They honor our men and women killed fighting with their efforts.
A more-guts-than-I've-got BTT. Pity the press is too busy with their Bush-lied drumbeat to notice the trivialities of human freedom.
It is a shame this won't get mentioned in our LSM.
These are the people who should be compared to our founding fathers. Not the terrorists. These are the women congress should be mentioning on the record. This is the added bonus of the war on terror.
These are the people who will be in the history books of Afghanistan, books girls will now be allowed to read and study.
Now that's what I call an "EXTREME makeover".
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