A parliamentary spokesman cited an article of the legislature's code of conduct that bans members from insulting each other. He also said lawmakers have asked that a court complaint be filed against Joya.
Joya, an outspoken 29-year-old lawmaker for Farah Province, was not present at today's parliamentary session.
She made the comments to private Tolo Television, whose airing of critical reports sparked a controversial police raid after the country's attorney general objected to its coverage.
Joya famously complained at the Constitutional Loya Jirga in 2003 of the participation at that landmark event of mujahedin leaders -- some of whom she has suggested are war criminals.
Joya called the vote a "political conspiracy."
"Since I've started my struggle for human rights in Afghanistan, for women's rights, these criminals, these drug smugglers, they've stood against me from the first time I raised my voice at the Loya Jirga," AP quoted her as saying.
Joya more recently described Afghan mujahedin as being one of two types: "One kind fought for independence, which I respect, but the other kind destroyed the country."
In May 2006, she was pelted with empty water bottles by other female lawmakers while male colleagues made death threats against her during a legislative session. That melee erupted after Joya accused some former Afghan mujahedin of mass murder.
The issue of the mujahedin legacy is among the most divisive issues in the country in some circles.
While the mujahedin's fierce resistance eventually helped repel Soviet invaders after a bloody 10-year war, there is considerable evidence that many of those same leaders committed atrocities against fellow Afghans.
(AFP, AP, dpa)
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