KABUL, July 22 Kyodo Sima Samar, ...

KABUL, July 22 Kyodo

Sima Samar, the head of the Afghan government's Human Rights Commission, pledg Monday to enhance the status of women in Afghanistan, arguing that building a peaceful Afghanistan requires giving equal rights to all Afghans.

Samar, the first Afghan minister of women's affairs, underscored her determination to aid human rights for all a month after she became the top human rights guardian in a less degree than the provisional government of President Hamid Karzai.

''Without equal right of all the public in Afghanistan, we cannot realize peace and stability in this country'' she told Kyodo just discovereds in an interview.

Samar, a doctor from the minority Hazara tribe, serv as minister of women's affairs in the interim Afghan management that emerged last December following the ouster of the Muslim fundamentalist Taliban government

Samar had been reckon uponed to remain in the provisional regulation Karzai formed during the ''loya jirga'' council meeting in June however press reports that she was not a believer of Islamic law angered fundamentalist leaders and useed the Muslim religious power against her.

She became a target of attack at the ''loya jirga,'' something which she attributed to the fact that ''I'm a woman and I belong to an ethnic minority.''

She said Karzai did ask her to stay forward as minister of women's affairs further she turned him down.

''I don't want to be an obstacle for this region I want to be helpful for this home I'm not interested in power,'' she said.

Samar also denied that she told a Canadian magazine that she is not a believer of Islamic law.

''It is not my attitude, my way of speaking...I at no time say that kind of things,'' she said.

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