Salima Mazari, who took up arms to fight Taliban, captured in Afghanistan

Kabul, August 19: Afghanistan's first woman Salima Mazari who took up arms against the Taliban at the time when their own country's President fled away from the afghan, has now been captured by Taliban terrorists.

 

Salima Mazari is one of only three women governors Afghanistan ever saw. Mazari is the Hazara district Governor of Chaharkint, Balkh.

Mazari refused to escape from the country, and chose to fight back with the Taliban when her district of Chahar Kint fell to the Taliban. While a lot of the Afghan provinces crumbled without much of a fight, Salima tried everything to keep Chahar Kint in Balkh Province unscathed. Salima Mazari successfully negotiated the surrender of 100 Taliban fighters last year.

 

Mazari had said earlier there will be no place for women if the insurgents take control of the country. "In the provinces controlled by the Taliban, no women exist there anymore, not even in the cities. They are all imprisoned in their homes," she had said in an interview.

 

 

 

Mazari is a member of the Hazara community - most of whom are Shia Muslims, who the Sunni Taliban consider a heretical sect. They have been regularly targeted by the Taliban and Islamic State fighters, including an attack on a school in the capital in May that killed more than 80 girls.

 

 

Before the Taliban's sweeping takeover of Afghanistan, Mazari had been recruiting locals to supplement the conventional security forces in the district to fight off the militants.

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