KABUL: (MEP) President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has invested a fund to support women affected by violence.
While paying his support to the fund, President Ghani said on Sunday that cabinet members have also promised of giving 15 per cent of their one month pay.
He further said that women must be given their legal and religious rights.
The gathering was organized by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and attended First Lady Rola Ghani, second-Vice President Mohammad Sarwar Danis, deputies to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Ahmadzia Massoud-President Ghani’s special envoy for reform and good governance, cabinet members, other high ranking government officials and activists of women’s rights.
Minister of Women’s Affairs Dilbar Nazari and First Lady Rola Ghani, women’s rights activists hailed the fund as an important step for supporting women victims of violence.
