Four women have been killed in three separate incidents involving family members in Faryab and Nangarhar provinces in the past three days, local sources have reported.
A husband and father is being held as a suspect in the deaths of a 50-year-old mother and her 27-year-old daughter after they died from smoke inhalation in Faryab’s Qaisar district.
The deaths of the pair on March 13 at their home in Bandar Shah area allegedly occurred as they used coal to heat a room, leading to gas inhalation, sources reported.
Husband and father Abdul Haq was also at home with the family that night. He was said to be sleeping in a separate room with other children amid ongoing family disputes, the source said.
Abdul Haq is being held in Taliban detention for investigation, the source added.
In a separate Faryab incident, a woman has allegedly been stabbed and killed by her brother in the Almar district’s Fath Abad area.
Details about her identity and age have not been disclosed, sources said.
The Taliban local administration confirmed the incident, attributing it to family disputes and said the brother has escaped.
Further east in Nangarhar’s provincial capital Jalalabad, a man allegedly shot his 38-year-old wife dead in the PD8 area on Sunday.
The woman Shegufa was a mother to their three children.
A source close to the family said there had been ongoing disputes between the pair since Ramadan began.
The man has fled the area and his whereabouts are not known, according to the source.
The local Taliban administration has not commented on the incident.
Reports of brutality against girls and women have been rising since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 with some blaming the group’s policies against women as contributing to the violence.
