CHARIKR (PAN): Hundreds of women from central Parwan province voiced support for President Hamid Karzai on Thursday, when he was sworn in along with two vice-presidents for a second five-year term.

At a meeting attended by 400 women in Charikar, Women's Affairs Director Shah Jehan Yazdan Parast said they were fully behind the president because of the services he had rendered to females over the last eight years.

She added the president had been able to introduce democracy in Afghanistan and initiate valuable measures for women's welfare. The official urged Karzai to pay even greater attention to women's rights during his second tenure.

Hangama, a 30-year-old participant of the meeting, told Pajhwok Afghan News girls could go to schools, universities and offices because of President Karzai's policies. They were denied schooling and jobs under the Taliban regime.

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