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Afghan Woman Killed For Not Wearing Burqa As Taliban Make New Claims To Protect Women’s Rights

Tim Pearce
Afghan Woman Killed For Not Wearing Burqa As Taliban Make New Claims To Protect Women’s Rights
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Taliban militants shot and killed a woman for not wearing a burqa on the same day the terror group pledged a new commitment to women’s rights.

Fox News published a photo Tuesday of an Afghan woman lying in a pool of her own blood after being shot by a Taliban militant in Afghanistan’s Takhar province. That same day, a Taliban spokesman publicly announced that the new regime would “provide women with environment to work and study, and the presence of women in different (government) structures according to Islamic law and in accordance with our cultural values.”

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