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Female doctor in Kandahar claims to be beaten by Taliban
[KhaamaPress] A female doctor in Kandahar province claimed that her home was stormed by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters and was beaten along with her family members and a neighbor. Doctor Fahima Rahmati who is also a civil activist in a video clip said that the Taliban fighters have also taken her mobile phones while their raid on her home on Sunday night, September 11. Rahmati said that she was neither a former government official nor had a weapon in her home but the Taliban fighters wanted to take with themselves her brothers. Provincial officials in Kandahar province said that they are not aware of the raid and will investigate the case and bring to justice the culprits. Fahima Rahmati is a local doctor and is running a charity foundation in Kandhar province and helping poor families. "Two of my brothers are still missing, I hope the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan will hear my voice, my two brothers, my brother-in-law and two brothers-in-law of my sister are still missing, where are they and with whom are they?" says Fahima in a video clip. Fahima Rahmati, a civil society activist and the head of a charity in southern Kandahar province, claimed on Sunday that an "armed group related to the Taliban," had entered her house and beat some of her family members last night. Miss Rahmati, who leads a charity naming Heela, (wish) said she has received death threats and her family has also been threatened. She added that she has never worked with the government before. “Is this their general amnesty--that the Taliban are coming to my house, and beating my family members? Is governance like this?” A man also claimed that his wife was recently killed in a Taliban shooting in Kabul. Her husband, Abdul Khaleq said: “Is this in Islam? Can someone, in Islam, kill a woman who is outside her house?” This comes as the Taliban Head of State, Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, in an audio message asked the Taliban to not offend the people. Posted by: trailing wife 2021-09-13 |
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