FIRST FEMALE MAYOR OF AFGHANISTAN WAITS FOR TALIBAN TO KILL HER

  • 17/08/2021

‘I am sitting here waiting for them to come. I have nobody to help me or my family. I am just sitting with them and my husband. And they will come for me and kill me,’ Zarifa Ghafari said after the militant group took over the country on Sunday.As recently as a few weeks ago, Ghafari had expressed hope for a better future for Afghanistan in an interview with an international daily. However, her hopes were dashed on Sunday.


Ghafari became the first and youngest female mayor of the Maidan Wardak province in 2018, and now she and those like her look forward to the arrival of the Taliban. She had received death threats from the Taliban in the past. Just 20 days after the third attempt to kill her failed, her father General Abdul Wasi Ghafari was killed by the militants on 15 November last year. Ghafari was in charge of the welfare of soldiers and civilians injured in terror attacks in Kabul.  ‘Younger people are aware of what is happening. They are connected through social media. I think they will keep fighting for our rights’. Today, she feels helpless and is terrified for her life and the safety of her family. ‘We thought Kabul wouldn’t fall to the Taliban,’ she said.

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