How did the Afghanistan Women Council (AWC) get started?
Fatana Gailani and her husband, Ishaq Gailani, fled to Peshawar, Pakistan, to escape oppression and death threats by the Taliban. Mrs. Gailani founded the Afghanistan Women Council in 1986 and started its activities in 1993 to restore women’s and children’s basic rights to education, employment, and social and political privileges. The Council managed to establish a humanitarian relief effort, a clinic and a school for Afghan refugees inside Pakistan. The Council seeks to secure the dignity and freedom of Afghan women in accordance with Afghan culture and Islamic Sharia while remaining committed to peaceful solutions to Afghan problems.
