Afghan woman shot, blinded, for getting a job

[jamahir]

Ok, it was treated poorly.. but then it went rabid and must now be put down, put to sleep. Wipe it out and put something new in there.

That's quite a ruthless statement.

minerals at best price for glorious democracy of USA.

Glorious democracy ? Are you joking, sir ?

A massive military presence and bordering a bit of Chy-Na !

I maintain this. The SPA movement I referred to earlier, it should be given assistance by Russia and the stans.

The Taliban are simply an ultranationalist force. Like the Hindutvadis in India. Similarly regressive. The Taliban just wants the foreigners off Afghanistan and want to coolly impose their ideas on the country. And the West has no problem.

I say this, the West should not have anything to do with Afg.

If patients refusing to be examined by a doctor of the opposite sex could face five years in prison or an $88,000 fine, it doesn't apply in France.

Well, I agree that there are certain intimate or invasive medical cases where a woman will feel more comfortable with a woman medic but there is also the thing that any automatic rejection, without sensible reason, of opposite gender medics will be bound to seem "separatist" as the French government said.

 

[mudas777]

But what other pressing matters are there for the Taliban other than banning music shops, closing down men's barber shops and pushing women into the shuttlecock burqa ? This is the Taliban's entire desire for Afghanistan. It's not like the Taliban wants to send another Abdul Ahad Mohmand to a space station.

And you can find other such cases if you search. One is this from 2012 :




Read this from the OP :

What "Sharia law" is the Taliban talking about ? Surely not the understanding of Islam by progressive people like Nasser and Gaddafi.



This "filthy Indian" has quoted a TOI article which in turns quote a Reuters article.



A murder wanted by her mother and father but carried out through the Taliban who share the same regressive, anti-human ideas as the parents.

From the OP :

Any piece of news coming out from India or from an Indian i got a credibility issue and you are no exception. As Taliban gain strength and achieve victories propaganda against Taliban is bound to intensified and they are going to be portrayed as villains and little Hitler's. Indians and Indian disinformation labs and Western planted and cheap journalists are at the forefront of all this drama's. Planted pictures, doctored videos and old reinvented stories and all drama queens doesn't cut any ice even there is always remote possibility some cases may be genuine.
Indians backsides are on fire and they bound to bitch as their is a real possibility they may loose all influence and their terrorists camps all together. What India have spend in Afghanistan on welfare projects and how much damage they did to Pakistan through setting up few huts and tents to set up camps is disproportional. Even if India have spend 3 billions in Afghanistan for development projects we needed more then a billion annually just to keep 150,000 soldiers just to station their never mind the other security costs through out region and the rest of the country and 70,000 loved ones we buried. That's why India is crying so much as her ability to inflict damage to Pakistan is going to get curtailed and now they have to fight a real war not whores war from the eastern front like a man, which with their little willies they are not capable of.

 

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Afghan woman shot, blinded, for getting a job

Reuters | Nov 10, 2020, 13:24 IST

33-year-old Khatera was blinded after a gunmen attack in Ghazni province of Afghanistan

KABUL: The last thing 33-year-old Khatera saw were the three men on a motorcycle who attacked her just after she left her job at a police station in Afghanistan's central Ghazni province, shooting at her and stabbing her with a knife in the eyes.

Waking up in hospital, everything was dark.

"I asked the doctors, why I can't see anything? They told me that my eyes are still bandaged because of the wounds. But at that moment, I knew my eyes had been taken from me," she said.

She and local authorities blame the attack on Taliban militants - who deny involvement – and say the assailants acted on a tip-off from her father who vehemently opposed her working outside the home.

For Khatera, the attack caused not just the loss of her sight but the loss of a dream she had battled to achieve - to have an independent career. She joined the Ghazni police as an officer in its crime branch a few months ago.

"I wish I had served in police at least a year. If this had happened to me after that, it would have been less painful. It happened too soon ... I only got to work and live my dream for three months," she told Reuters.

The attack on Khatera, who only uses one name, is indicative of a growing trend, human rights activists say, of an intense and often violent backlash against women taking jobs, especially in public roles. In Khatera's case, being a police officer could have also angered the Taliban.

The rights activists believe a mix of Afghanistan's conservative social norms and an emboldened Taliban gaining influence while the United States withdraws its troops from the country is driving the escalation.

The Taliban are currently negotiating in Doha, Qatar, with the Afghan government to broker a peace deal in which many expect them to formally return to power, but progress is slow and there has been an uptick in fighting and attacks on officials and prominent women around the country.

In recent months, the Taliban have said they will respect women's rights under Sharia law but many educated women say they have doubts. The insurgent group has opposed a reform to add mother's names to identity cards, one of the first concrete stances they have revealed on women's rights as they engage in the peace process.

"Though the situation for Afghan women in public roles has always been perilous, the recent spike in violence across the country has made matters even worse," said Samira Hamidi, Amnesty International's Afghanistan campaigner. "The great strides made on women's rights in Afghanistan over more than a decade must not become a casualty of any peace deal with the Taliban."

CHILDHOOD DREAM DASHED

Khatera's dream as a child was to work outside the home and after years of trying to convince her father, to no avail, she was able to find support from her husband.

But her father, she said, did not give up on his opposition.

"Many times, as I went to duty, I saw my father following me ... he started contacting the Taliban in the nearby area and asked them to prevent me from going to my job," she said.

She said that he provided the Taliban with a copy of her ID card to prove she worked for police and that he had called her throughout the day she was attacked, asking for her location.

Ghazni's police spokesman confirmed they believed the Taliban were behind the attack and that Khatera's father had been taken into custody. Reuters was unable to reach him directly for comment.

A Taliban spokesman said the group was aware of the case, but that it was a family matter and they were not involved.

Khatera and her family, including five children, are now hiding out in Kabul, where she is recovering and mourning the career she lost.

She struggles to sleep, jumps when she hears a motorbike and has had to cut off contact with her extended family, including her mother, who blame her for her father's arrest. She hopes desperately that a doctor overseas might somehow be able to partially restore her sight.

"If it is possible, I get back my eyesight, I will resume my job and serve in the police again," she said, adding in part she needed an income to avoid destitution. "But the main reason is my passion to do a job outside the home."

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Jamahir's comment : Obviously, a very humane act on behalf of the "Good Taliban". Let those evil Afghan socialists go to hell. The Western governments are leaving behind the intellectual and progressive Taliban to rule Afghanistan. All is well, especially for Afghanistan's women. Cheers.

Two groups are fighting for Afghanistan's control. And both groups have their problems--only hope is to choose the lesser of these two evils. That's how I see it.

Now, who is the lesser evil? In my book, Taliban are better than the current regime. This poor woman suffered at the hands of Taliban but as with all such incidents, the culprits will be brought to justice by the Taliban. They have no qualms about hanging one of their own. Can you say the same about the corrupt Ghani regime?

Take a look at below incidents. Policewomen are being raped inside police stations and they are running from post to pillar to be heard and they are constantly being pressurized and harassed.

Afghan policewomen abuse: US and EU urge inquiry

The US condemns "shocking" claims of rape and harassment, following a BBC investigation.

www.bbc.com

Do you think the current setup will provide justice to these women? No. I don't think so. Taliban can.

Let me say it again, Taliban are the lesser of the evils trying to capture Afghanistan.

 

[jamahir]

Any piece of news coming out from India or from an Indian i got a credibility issue and you are no exception. As Taliban gain strength and achieve victories propaganda against Taliban is bound to intensified and they are going to be portrayed as villains and little Hitler's. Indians and Indian disinformation labs and Western planted and cheap journalists are at the forefront of all this drama's. Planted pictures, doctored videos and old reinvented stories and all drama queens doesn't cut any ice even there is always remote possibility some cases may be genuine.
Indians backsides are on fire and they bound to bitch as their is a real possibility they may loose all influence and their terrorists camps all together. What India have spend in Afghanistan on welfare projects and how much damage they did to Pakistan through setting up few huts and tents to set up camps is disproportional. Even if India have spend 3 billions in Afghanistan for development projects we needed more then a billion annually just to keep 150,000 soldiers just to station their never mind the other security costs through out region and the rest of the country and 70,000 loved ones we buried. That's why India is crying so much as her ability to inflict damage to Pakistan is going to get curtailed and now they have to fight a real war not whores war from the eastern front like a man, which with their little willies they are not capable of.

Firstly, I do not speak for the current Indian Establishment which seems to lean towards the Right. And the Taliban is a right-wing movement. It wouldn't be fantasy if the Indian Establishment cultivated ties with the Taliban.

Secondly, the Afghan political movement I support is the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan which is a progressive party that not only rejects the Taliban but also the current Afghan government which it sees as having compromised with the Western governments and warlords like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ( please see this article ). The SPA also seems to dislike the prior Soviet presence in Afghanistan.

Two groups are fighting for Afghanistan's control. And both groups have their problems--only hope is to choose the lesser of these two evils. That's how I see it.

Now, who is the lesser evil? In my book, Taliban are better than the current regime. This poor woman suffered at the hands of Taliban but as with all such incidents, the culprits will be brought to justice by the Taliban. They have no qualms about hanging one of their own. Can you say the same about the corrupt Ghani regime?

Bhai, just because I dislike the Taliban doesn't mean I like the current Afghan government. Please see my reference to the SPA above. The SPA would be my choice for government but would the Western governments allow it to do so ?

Take a look at below incidents. Policewomen are being raped inside police stations and they are running from post to pillar to be heard and they are constantly being pressurized and harassed.

Afghan policewomen abuse: US and EU urge inquiry

The US condemns "shocking" claims of rape and harassment, following a BBC investigation.

www.bbc.com

An atrocity, no doubt. As you said, the Ghani regime is morally corrupt.

 

[Sage]

No no ...blame it on ISI as well ...When because of the US presence ...the Afghans were giving middle fingers to Pakistan during their elections...someone was silently waiting for the day when the US would pull out...leaving the Afghans with their middle fingers pointed at themselves.
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