As the talks on formation of an interim administration in Afghanistan continued in Bonn, women activists of the war-ravaged nation are not much optimistic about its outcome and want the UN to play a direct and more important role in restoring peace.
The Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) on Friday said that not all Afghan factions are participating in the parleys and those involved in the negotiations are unlikely to relinquish and share power back home. For Afghanistan to have lasting peace now it is important for all the groups involved to disarm and the UN will have to play a significant role in ensuring this through a peace keeping force, said Sehar Saba of RAWA, known for its resistance against Taliban and fundamentalism in New Delhi.
Now is time for the UN to play its important and vital role so as not to allow Afghanistan to be ruled by guns, said Saba expressing the fear that after 20 years of conflict few commanders would want to share power as they had got used to asserting themselves by gun totting. Bureau Report