Afghanistan: Hanifa Safi, Women's Rights MP, assassinated

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Permalink Reply by paul collings on July 14, 2012 at 18:38

NANGARHAR, Afghanistan - A regional head of women's affairs was targeted and killed by a car bomb in Afghanistan's east on Friday, officials said, the latest act of brazen violence against women in the country.

Hanifa Safi was killed while driving through the capital of Laghman province, Mehtar Lam, when a bomb attached to her car exploded, provincial governor spokesman Sarhadi Zwak said.

"It killed her and left her husband, who was with her in the car, in a coma," Zwak said, adding that the attack about 150 km (93 miles) east of Kabul also wounded 10 civilians.

Zwak declined to say whether or not he believed the Taliban were behind the attack, instead saying "enemies of Afghanistan" planted the bomb. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. The United Nations condemned the attack.

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It is always hard to get reliable news from Afganistan because the only way to get news is via the MSM, which is never going to side with the truth.

Most of the storys i've found on this bombing have reference to the BBC's PC reporting. Maybe someone from a different part of the world can a less govenment censored account.
 

Permalink Reply by shiva on July 15, 2012 at 4:25

Pamela Geller said

UPDATE: The enemediaa rarely runs pictures of the vicitms of sharia. Honor killing stories, when reported, rarely have a photo. Keeping the voiceless invisible.

Well after the simplest of searches, this is what crops up

Momtaz, 16, a victim of an acid attack, participates in a protest Kabul July 11, 2012.

A few days after the protest by women who where where demonstrating against the recent public execution of a young woman accused of adultery, Hanifa Safi was killed while driving through the capital of Laghman province, Mehtar Lam, when a bomb attached to her car exploded, provincial governor spokesman Sarhadi Zwak said.

"It killed her and left her husband, who was with her in the car, in a coma," Zwak said, adding that the attack about 150 km (93 miles) east of Kabul also wounded 10 civilians.

Zwak declined to say whether or not he believed the Taliban were behind the attack, instead saying "enemies of Afghanistan" planted the bomb. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. The United Nations condemned the attack.

"The deliberate killing of a brave woman and a public servant, dedicated to improving the situation of Afghan women and working for the safety and security of her country, is an outrage," said Jan Kubis, its representative to Kabul.

Safi, appointed in 2008, was the second provincial head of women's affairs to be assassinated since the posts were created a decade ago in each of Afghanistan's 34 provinces, reporting to the Ministry of Women's Affairs in Kabul.

Safia Ama Jan, who headed the department in southern Kandahar province, was gunned down in 2006 by the Taliban

Safia Ahmed-jan (was an Afghan women's rights advocate and an outspoken critic of the Taliban for the latter's suppression of women. During the period of fundamentalist rule, she stayed in Afghanistan to secretly teach women.
At the time of her assassination on 25 September 2006 she was the provincial director of the Ministry of Women's Affairs in Kandahar province, a position she had held for five years. Previously, she was a teacher and high school principal. She was killed in front of her home in the provincial capital, Kandahar, by two men on a motorcycle.

Permalink Reply by Alan Lake on July 16, 2012 at 2:04

Our naive government brings gangsters from the hell holes of Afghanistan and Pakistan, like the Islamists that killed these couragous women, so the thugs can lord it over us, and make us submit to their specially uniformed tribe.