Afghanistan’s First Female Mayor May Get Killed...
With nowhere to go and no apparent help coming, Zarifa Ghafari, who made history in 2018 by becoming the first female mayor in Afghanistan, is sitting at home, waiting for the Taliban to come for her.
The Taliban's rapid takeover of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, raised concerns about the fate of women's rights, as the Taliban kept the door open to reimplementing Sharia law. Appointed by President Ashraf Ghani, who fled the country after the Taliban took over, Ghafari has had three attempts on her life, which she's attributed to the Taliban.
"I'm sitting here waiting for them to come. There is no one to help me or my family. I'm just sitting with them and my husband. And they will come for people like me and kill me. I can't leave my family. And anyway, where would I go?" Ghafari told i News on Sunday.
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