Taliban verify stories 4 girls killed in northern Afghanistan

 

KABUL: Four girls have been discovered useless within the northern metropolis of Mazar-i-Sharif, a spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities stated on Saturday, following stories that activists had been killed.

Two suspects have been arrested after the 4 our bodies had been discovered at a home within the metropolis’s fifth police district, inside ministry spokesman Qari Sayed Khosti stated in a video assertion.

“The arrested people have admitted in initial interrogation that the women were invited to the house by them. Further investigations are under way and the case has been referred to court,” he stated.

Khosti didn’t establish the victims, however a supply in Mazar-i-Sharif instructed AFP that at the very least one of many useless was a girls’s rights activist, whose household doesn’t want to converse to the media.

A report on BBC Persian, citing civil society sources, stated the 4 girls had been buddies and colleagues who had hoped to journey to Mazar-i-Sharif airport for a flight overseas.

A rights group supply instructed AFP on situation of anonymity that the ladies obtained a name that they thought was an invite to hitch an evacuation flight and had been picked up by a automobile, solely to be discovered useless later.

The Taliban, who seized energy in Afghanistan in August after a 20-year warfare towards the previous US-backed authorities, are a deeply conservative Islamist motion.

Under their final interval of rule girls had been banned from public life and for the reason that group’s return to authorities many rights activists have fled the nation.

Some girls who remained have held avenue protests in Kabul demanding that their rights be revered and that ladies be allowed to attend public excessive colleges.

Taliban fighters have damaged up a few of the protests, and the federal government has threatened to arrest any journalists protecting unauthorised gatherings.

But the motion’s leaders have insisted that their fighters usually are not authorised to kill activists and have promised that any who do will likely be punished.