Taliban arrest fighter who shot dead Hazara woman at checkpoint

Kabul: A Taliban fighters have been arrested for shooting dead a Hazara woman at the checkpoint in the Afghan capital when she returned from marriage, a group spokesman said Wednesday.

The murder of Zainab Abdullahi, 25, has a horrified woman, who faces an increase in restrictions since the Taliban returned to power in August.

The shooting took place in the neighborhood inhabited inhabited by members of the Shiite Hazara minority community, who had been persecuted by Sunni Hard-Liners for centuries, with jihadist groups such as Islamic countries regularly targeting them in a deadly attack.

Abdullahi was killed because of a mistake, “said Taliban spokesman Mohammad Naeem on Twitter, adding arrested fighters to be punished.

His family has been offered 600,000 Afghan (around $ 5,700) for photo shooting January 13 in the Dasht-e-Barchi capital of the capital, the Interior Ministry said separately.

Some women’s rights activists have protested small in Kabul since Abdullahi’s murder, demanding justice.
The Taliban increasingly imposes their hard-line interpretations of Islamic law in the country, and women are being squeezed from public life.

Most secondary schools for girls are closed, while women are banned from all important government work.
They have also been ordered not to go long distance unless accompanied by close relatives of the male.

Earlier this month, the Taliban religious police put up a posters around the capital who ordered a woman to cover up.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Fear for the promotion of the virtue and prevention of representatives said it was “only a boost for Muslim women to follow Sharia law.”

On Tuesday, the United Nations High Commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, urged the Security Council to “hold the account” of those who were guilty of violations in Afghanistan.

He said he denied women and women their fundamental rights were “destroying the massive” country that had faced a humanitarian disaster with an unprecedented proportion.

The Taliban has promised a softer rule version that marked their first task in power from 1996 to 2001, but the government while they did not have female members.