Afghan rights chief fears vote fraud against women

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Ballots of Afghan women in conservative districts are vulnerable to fraud in August's presidential election, the country's top human rights official said Sunday.

The movements of women are severely restricted by tradition in conservative parts of Afghanistan, where it is rare for women to travel outside their villages or even their family compounds. There, male relatives often register the women as voters.

"Two issues are of concern for me. First is that the right of the woman to cast her vote will not be given to her, and the second is that it's possible that there will be serious fraud in the election by this method," Sima Samar, chairwoman of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, told a news conference.

Giving an example, Samar said that during the last six months of voter registration, 72 percent of those signing up in Logar - a province south of Kabul - were women. She said it was not "logically acceptable" that so many registrants were female.

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Meanwhile, the U.S.-led coalition reported two days of fighting in a rugged region of eastern Afghanistan along the border with Pakistan in which American fighter aircraft and U.S. and Afghan ground forces killed 19 suspected militants.

The fighting began when militants attacked an Afghan combat outpost and killed three American soldiers, two from Latvia and four Afghan solders, deaths the military reported on Friday. The Afghan Defense Ministry said hundreds of militants had massed in Kunar.

In response, Afghan and coalition forces carried out counterattacks that killed 19 militants, said Capt. Elizabeth Mathias, a U.S. military spokeswoman.
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so a man can be under that burka

oh the many ways women are used by men.

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