Former Afghan MP Mursal Nabizada shot dead in Kabul - The Guardian

A erstwhile Afghan MP and her bodyguard person been changeable dormant by chartless assailants astatine her location successful the capital, Kabul, constabulary said Sunday.

Mursal Nabizada was among the fewer pistillate parliamentarians who stayed successful Kabul aft the Taliban seized powerfulness successful August 2021.

It is the archetypal clip an MP from the erstwhile medication has been killed successful the metropolis since the takeover.

Local constabulary chief, Molvi Hamidullah Khalid, said Nabizada and her defender were changeable dormant astir 3am. Saturday successful the aforesaid room.

He said her member and a 2nd information defender were injured. A 3rd information defender fled the country with wealth and jewellery.

She died connected the archetypal level of her home, which she utilized arsenic her office. Khalid said investigations are underway. He did not reply questions astir imaginable motives.

Abdullah Abdullah, who was a apical authoritative successful Afghanistan’s erstwhile western-backed government, said helium was saddened by Nabizada’s decease and hoped the perpetrators would beryllium punished. He described her arsenic a “representative and servant of the people.”

A erstwhile Kandahar parliamentarian, Malalai Ishaqzai, besides offered her condolences.

Nabizada was elected successful 2019 to correspond Kabul and stayed successful bureau until the Taliban takeover.

She was a subordinate of the parliamentary defene committee and worked astatine a backstage non-governmental group, the institute for quality resources improvement and research.