US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller in a press briefing criticized the treatment of women in Afghanistan, saying: “The treatment of women and girls inside Afghanistan is deplorable,” he said. 

Miller also said that the US is committed to supporting the people of Afghanistan and has contributed $2 billion to Afghanistan since August, 2021. 
 
“We have said it many times that the treatment of women and girls inside Afghanistan is deplorable. So the United States remains committed to supporting the people of Afghanistan. And we also remain the single largest provider of humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, including providing over $2 billion in lifesaving and sustaining assistance to the Afghan people since August of 2021,” he said. 
 
Rejecting the remarks of Matthew Miller, the Islamic Emirate said that the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan are protected within the framework of Islamic Sharia and that the world uses the issues of human rights as a political tool against the Islamic Emirate. 

“They use human rights issues as a means for their political goals and they want to achieve their political goals, which they do not achieve, and this condition of theirs is inappropriate. If they do not cooperate with the Islamic Emirate, and prevent progress, it means that it will affect the people living in Afghanistan and they are oppressed and their rights are lost,” said Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesman of the Islamic Emirate. 

Earlier, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, at a conference of the Human Rights Council criticized the continuous violation of human rights in Afghanistan, particularly the rights of women.