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Afghan Town’s First Female Mayor Awaits Her Assassination
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Contributor | RP |
Last Edited | RP Oct 09, 2019 02:35pm |
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Author | Fatima Faizi and Rod Nordland |
News Date | Friday, October 4, 2019 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | Zarifa Ghafari, who at 26 became one of Afghanistan’s first female mayors, has said that she fully expects to be assassinated.
Not that she is keeping a low profile.
After taking office in March in Maidan Shar, a town of 35,000 in Afghanistan’s Wardak Province, she had a banner hoisted with her name, a picture of her wearing a bright red head scarf and the slogan of her anti-littering campaign: “Let’s keep our city clean.”
Ms. Ghafari is well aware that she is on the front lines of the struggle for women’s rights in Afghanistan, at a time when recent American peace talks with the Taliban have Afghans thinking about what might happen if the ultraconservative insurgents ever take part in running the country again. |
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