Female former Afghan lawmaker shot dead in her Kabul home
Mike Brest
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A former female Afghan lawmaker was murdered in her Kabul home early Sunday morning, according to local law enforcement.
Mursal Nabizada, who was in the Afghan parliament from 2019 until it was ousted by the Taliban in August 2021, was killed along with her security guard, while her brother was wounded in the attack. She was one of the few female lawmakers who remained in the country after they were overthrown.
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Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said there’s an investigation underway to determine who carried out the attack.
This was the first time a lawmaker from the Ghani government has been killed since the Taliban assumed power, but there have been indications that the security situation is worsening, according to CNN.
“Rising insecurity is of grave concern,” the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan wrote in a statement condemning the attack. “Violence is not part of any solution to bring lasting peace to Afghanistan.”
Last week, ISIS-K, the Afghanistan branch of the Islamic State, killed five people and wounded at least 40 others in a bombing near the foreign ministry in Kabul. Zadran condemned what he called a “cowardly act” targeting Afghan civilians.
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The Taliban launched a military offensive in early August 2021, weeks ahead of the United States’s impending departure, which ultimately occurred at the end of the month. They quickly toppled the U.S.-backed Ghani government in Kabul even after the U.S. spent billions of dollars training the Afghan forces.
Taliban leaders initially said they wouldn’t roll back the rights women had gained in the 20 years they were out of power, but that turned out to be lip service. In the year and a half since then, however, the group’s initial promise has rung hollow.