Taliban arrests fighter who shot dead Hazara woman at checkpoint

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.

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 photo shoot took place in the living environment inhabited by majority by members of the Shiite Hazara minority community, which had become a target of deadly attacks by sectarian armed groups such as ISIL (ISIS).

Abdullahi was “killed by a mistake”, Taliban spokesman Mohammad Naeem said on Twitter, adding that the arrested warrior would 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 protested in Kabul since the murder of Abdullahi, demanded justice.

“When we heard Zainab’s murder, we are afraid. We are afraid that if we leave our house, we may not return to life,” said a female rights activist who asked not to be named for his own safety.

“At night we can’t get out and even in the days we don’t come out unless there is something urgent,” he said, adding that past checkpoints was at risk for women.

Most secondary schools for girls are closed, while women are banned from all important government work.

They have also been ordered not to travel long distances 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 ministry spokesman for the promotion of 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.

Taliban have promised women more freedom as opposed to their previous rules (1996-2001), where the education of daughters is prohibited and women are not permitted to work except in several sectors.