Mursal Nabizada: Gunmen kill former Afghan MP at home in Kabul

A erstwhile Afghan MP and her bodyguard person been changeable dormant astatine her location successful the superior Kabul, Afghan constabulary person said.

Mursal Nabizada, 32, was 1 of the fewer pistillate MPs who stayed successful Kabul aft the Taliban seized powerfulness successful August 2021.

Her member and a 2nd information defender were wounded successful the onslaught connected Sunday.

Former colleagues praised Ms Nabizada arsenic a "fearless champion for Afghanistan" who turned down a accidental to permission the country.

Since the Taliban returned to powerfulness successful 2021, women person been removed from astir each areas of nationalist life.

Kabul constabulary spokesperson Khalid Zadran said information forces had started a superior probe into the incident.

Former lawmaker Mariam Solaimankhil said Ms Nabizada was "a existent trailblazer - strong, outspoken pistillate who stood for what she believed in, adjacent successful the look of danger".

"Despite being offered the accidental to permission Afghanistan, she chose to enactment and combat for her people," she wrote connected Twitter.

Ms Nabizada, from the eastbound state of Nangarhar, was elected arsenic a subordinate of parliament from Kabul successful 2018 and stayed successful powerfulness until the Taliban takeover.

She was a subordinate of the parliamentary defence committee and worked astatine the Institute for Human Resources Development and Research.

Hannah Neumann, a subordinate of the European Parliament, said: "I americium bittersweet and aggravated and privation the satellite to know!" successful effect to the killing.

"She was killed successful darkness, but the Taliban physique their strategy of sex apartheid successful afloat daylight."

Abdullah Abdullah, a erstwhile apical authoritative successful Afghanistan's erstwhile Western-backed government, said helium was saddened by Ms Nabizada's decease and hoped the perpetrators would beryllium punished.

He described her arsenic a "representative and servant of the people".

Many women who had salient nonrecreational jobs successful Afghanistan aft the US-led penetration 2 decades agone fled the state aft the Taliban returned to power.