Taliban fighters shot and killed a woman for not wearing a burqa in Afghanistan, on the same day the group pledged to honour “women’s rights”.
A photo emerged of a woman in Takhar province lying in a pool of blood, with loved ones crouched around her, after she was killed by insurgents for being in public without a head covering,A burqa clad woman carrying a sack on her head walks along a road in Kabul on August 7, 2021.
When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan before 9/11, it prevented women and girls from leaving the house without a male chaperone, and did not allow them to work or receive an education. A Taliban fighter stands over a vehicle on a street in Laghman province on August 15, 2021. Picture: AFP“There was kids, women, babies, old women, they could barely walk,” an Afghan former State Department contractor told Fox.
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