Taliban confirm reports of four women killed in northern Afghanistan

women have been Plant dead in the northern megacity of Mazar-i-Sharif, a spokesperson for Afghanistan’s Taliban government said on Saturday, following reports that activists had been killed.

Two suspects have been arrested after the four bodies were plant at a house in the megacity’s fifth police quarter, interior ministry spokesperson Qari Saeed Khosti said in a videotape statement.

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

Khosti didn’t identify the victims, but a source in Mazar-i-Sharif told AFP that at least one of the nothingness was a women’s rights activist, whose family doesn’t wish to speak to the media.

A report on BBC Persian, citing civil society sources, said the four women were musketeers and associates who had hoped to travel to Mazar-i-Sharif field for a flight out of the country.

A rights group source told AFP on condition of obscurity that 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.

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

But the movement’s leaders have claimed that their fighters aren’t authorised to kill activists and have promised that any who do will be penalized.