Former Afghan MP who championed female rights shot dead in Kabul | 24CA News
Mursal Nabizada, a human rights advocate and former member of Afghanistan’s parliament, has been killed by unknown gunmen at her house in Kabul, police stated.
Nabizada and her guard have been shot lifeless and her brother was injured in an assault on the weekend, police stated.
The assault came about in a single day on Saturday, police stated in a press release issued later, noting that they weren’t knowledgeable till about 7 a.m. native time on Sunday.
“The police and security forces very soon took action and started investigation of the case,” police stated within the assertion.
There have been no arrests and the investigation is continuous, they stated.
This is Mursal Nabizadah. She was a former Member of Parliament in Afghanistan and was shot lifeless in her house final evening in Kabul by armed males, alongside her bodyguards.<br><br>Taliban ruled-Afghanistan is now not a spot for ladies. For humanity. For life. <a href=”https://t.co/OOjah1xxmb”>pic.twitter.com/OOjah1xxmb</a>
—@NasimiShabnam
Nabizada had been a lawmaker till the Taliban took over as international forces withdrew in 2021, when many politicians fled the nation.
She was one among 9 feminine, former lawmakers {that a} group of Canadian MPs have been working to carry to Canada since October. They say the state of affairs “grows more dangerous by the day” for the remaining eight.
“No female is safe. But this is particularly so for these brave women MPs who led the way in opening up public and civic space for women and girls under the previous Afghan government,” stated a press release, launched Monday, from MPs Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe, Elizabeth May, Heather McPherson, Marcus Powlowski, Alex Ruff and Leah Taylor Roy.
On social media, individuals expressed outrage over Nabizada’s killing.
“Nabizada stayed in Afghanistan to fight for rights of women and girls,” stated Tirana Hassan, interim government director at Human Rights Watch.
‘Tragic loss’
Karen Decker, the chargé d’affaires of the United States’ mission to Afghanistan, primarily based in Qatar, known as for the perpetrators to be held accountable.
“Angered, heartbroken by murder of Mursal Nabizada, a tragic loss,” she stated.
“I offer Mursal’s family my condolences and hope to see them receive justice for this senseless act.”
Nabizada had been elected as a member of the decrease home of parliament in 2018 to symbolize Kabul, in response to native broadcaster Tolo.
The Taliban have stated they’re centered on making the nation safe and inspiring Afghans to return, however a number of assaults have taken place in current months, together with one on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs final week claimed by Islamic State during which dozens of individuals have been killed or wounded.
Women in Afghanistan are struggling to manage below the newest guidelines launched by the Taliban authorities that limit ladies’s freedom, together with bans on attending college and even a ban on ladies help employees.
In December, one particular person was killed in a suicide bomb assault close to the Kabul workplace of the Hezb-e-Islami social gathering, whereas its chief, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who was Afghanistan’s prime minister within the Nineteen Nineties, was inside.
