4 Women, Including Activist, Killed In Afghanistan: Taliban

Kabul Four women have been killed in the northern megacity of Mazar-i-Sharif, a spokesperson for Afghanistan’s Taliban government said on Saturday, as original sources linked at least one of the victims as a rights activist. Two suspects have been arrested after the four bodies were plant at a house in the megacity, said interior ministry spokesperson Qari Sayed Khosti.

“The arrested people have admitted in original interrogation that the women were invited to the house by them. Farther examinations are under way and the case has been appertained to court,”he said.

Khosti didn’t identify the victims, but sources in Mazar-i-Sharif told AFP that one of the nothingness was a women’s rights activist and university speaker, Frozan Safi.

Three sources in Mazar-i-Sharif told AFP that they had heard the women entered a call that they allowed was an assignation to join an evacuation flight and were picked up by a auto, only to be plant dead latterly.

“I knew one of those women, Frozan Safi,”a womanish hand of an transnational organisation told AFP, on condition of obscurity.”She was also a women’s activist, really well known in the megacity.”

The source said that three weeks ago she had herself entered a call from someone pretending to offer backing in her sweats to get to safety abroad.

“He knew all information about me, asked me to shoot my documents, wanted me to fill a questionnaire, pretending to be an functionary of my office in charge of giving word to the US for my evacuation,”she said.

After getting suspicious she blocked the frequenter, and is now living in fear. She was shocked when she heard about the killings.

I was formerly spooked,”she said.”My internal health isn’t good currently. I’m always hysterical that someone might come to my door, take me nearly and shoot me.”

The Taliban, who seized power in Afghanistan in August after a 20- time war against the former US- backed government, are a deeply conservative Islamist movement.

Under their last period of rule, women were banned from public life and since the group’s return to government numerous rights activists have fled the country.

Some women who remained have held road demurrers in Kabul demanding that their rights be admired and that girls be allowed to attend public high seminaries.

Taliban have broken up some of the demurrers, and the government has hovered to arrest any intelligencers covering unauthorised gatherings.