Afghanistan: Former female lawmaker shot dead in Kabul - DW (English)

Mursal Nabizada, a erstwhile lawmaker successful the Afghan parliament earlier the Taliban's takeover, was changeable dormant successful her home, constabulary said connected Sunday.

One of her bodyguards was besides killed successful the attack, which took spot overnight. A 2nd information defender was injured, on with her brother. Police did not springiness details of immoderate assailants.

Nabizada is 1 of the fewer erstwhile lawmakers to enactment successful Afghanistan aft hardline blimpish Taliban militants took implicit power of the state pursuing the departure of the US and its subject allies.

Her decease marks the archetypal clip that a person from the erstwhile governmental constitution has been killed nether Taliban control.

First ex-lawmaker killed since Taliban takeover

The 29-year-old lawmaker was elected successful 2019 to correspond the metropolis of Kabul. She had served arsenic a subordinate of the parliamentary defence committee arsenic good arsenic moving for a backstage NGO, the Institute for Human Resources Development and Research.

After the instrumentality of the Taliban successful the summertime of 2021, she continued doing NGO work, which she discussed astir 4 months agone during an quality connected section TV.

She besides condemned the Taliban's expanding restrictions connected Afghan women's freedoms.

Police spokesperson Khalid Zadran said that the motive for the sidesplitting was unclear, however, constabulary besides said that a 3rd bodyguard had fled the execution country with wealth and jewelry.

Taliban crackdown on women

Thousands of radical fled Afghanistan arsenic Taliban forces rapidly took power backmost from a weakened US-backed government.

Many feared a instrumentality to the Taliban's oppressive Islamist regularisation that had marked their clip successful powerfulness successful the precocious 1990s.

Despite promises from the Taliban to support immoderate of the freedoms that people, especially women, had experienced successful the 2 decades since the allied penetration removed the militants from powerfulness successful the archetypal place, galore of these promises person gradually proven to beryllium meaningless.

In precocious December, the Taliban declared that women will no longer beryllium allowed to spell to university, efficaciously limiting girls' acquisition to a maximum of sixth grade.

A caller prohibition connected women moving with planetary NGOs has besides seen overmuch indispensable enactment cease its work successful the impoverished country.

ab/wmr (AP, dpa)