ISLAMABAD (NNI): Sweden wants a representative government in Afghanistan to end miseries of the people of the war-ravaged country, head of Swedish ODA mission on Afghanistan Peter Lundberg said Tuesday.

Peter who concluded his weeklong visit to Afghanistan on head of three-member delegation ruled out the possibility of recognizing the Taliban government, who control about 90 percent of the Afghan territory.

"My government cannot encourage any movement in the world, created on religious basis," he told NNI. He added that like the other member states of the United Nations "we also want to see amicable solution to the Afghan turmoil that is representative government of all the Afghan factions. "

Referring to his talks with the Taliban authorities, Peter said that the pace of development, especially on the humanitarian grounds is quite smooth. "The situation of development is much better as compared to early 1996 but thee is still need of establishing more girls school there," he said.

Peter Lundberg informed the Governor Kandhar, Mullah Hassan about the $10 million assistance to Afghanistan on humanitarian assistance through the United Nations. He concluded his visit on Monday.

He said, "this assistance through the UN will be mainly spent on the projects including mine clearance, education, health, food, drinking water, irrigation etc. But above all 20 percent will be going on the girls education in Afghanistan."

The Swedish Ambassador in Pakistan on Monday evening hosted a reception in the honour of the Swedish ODA mission. The diplomats, the UN officials and NGOs officials attended the reception.

Sweden is contributing $10 to 12 million every year for the UN projects in Afghanistan falls under humanitarian assistance. The last year assistance was around $11.6 million. "The Swedish contributing is about 20 percent of the total spending in Afghanistan through the UN mission," an official of the UN in Islamabad said.

Talking about the human rights situation especially about the woman in Afghanistan, Ms Eva Salomonsson another member of the ODA delegation said, "there is a need of more woman participation in the development of Afghan society and laws must be soft for an Afghan woman."

Senior Military Advisor to UN Special Mission to Afghanistan Brig. Gen. Jan-G Isberg present in the reception also appreciated continued Swedish contribution to Afghanistan.

He said his mission did not visit the areas under the control of Northern Alliance. He said, "we had visited many areas of Afghanistan. We find more cultivation of Opium in Afghanistan as compared to the previous years that threatens the efforts to control narcotics," he said.