In Kunduz Province, a young pregnant woman killed herself and her unborn child by drinking acid. According to local sources, she was just 18 years old and had been married for six months. The motive of her suicide was domestic violence.
Taliban officials in Kunduz have not commented on her death, which took place around 11.30pm on Thursday, June 8 in the Hamid baay area of the third district of Kunduz city.
Meanwhile, the bodies of two murdered women were found in Maimana, capital of the northern Faryab province.
Hamidullah Botshikan, the Taliban spokesman for Faryab police, confirmed the incident and said that Taliban forces were trying to find the perpetrators. The women’s identities have not yet been determined.
A local source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Rukhshana Media that the victims were strangled.
Rukhshana Media understands their bodies were found in a waterless ditch in the Qorugh Sai area of the city’s eight district and taken to Faryab’s central hospital.
One source in the hospital said the women were 19 and 36 and had been tortured then killed with a scarf.
Also in Faryab province, a 21-year-old woman named Sakina hanged herself in the Nawdari area of Qaisar district. Taliban officials blamed her death on domestic violence. Local sources told Rukhshana Media the woman’s parents had tried to force her to marry a stranger.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, they said she had been engaged without her knowledge or consent to a man working in Iran.
“After the engagement, when Sakina talked to her fiancé via video call, she realized that he is mute and speaks with sign language,” the source said. “This was the reason she ended her life by hanging herself.”
Two more women hanged themselves in separate incidents on Thursday; a 22-year-old woman named Bibi Sanam in Qorban Baig area of Qadis district of Badghis province, and a 17-year-old girl in Qabchaaq area of Abkamari district of the province.
On Wednesday, June 7, in Samangan province, an 18-year-old girl named Suhaila was hanged by her parents at home.
The Taliban police in Samangan province called the murder domestic violence and said the parents had been arrested and were under investigation.
Murders and suicides of women are rising in some provinces of the country. Etilaat Roz, an Afghan news service now based in the US, tallied the deaths in Afghanistan for the last solar year, 1401. There were 213 suicides, of which 103 were women.
