{"id":37473,"date":"2026-03-17T10:42:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/en\/?p=37473"},"modified":"2026-03-17T10:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:12:06","slug":"midwife-stabbed-to-death-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/en\/midwife-stabbed-to-death-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwife stabbed to death in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A midwife has been stabbed to death in Afghanistan, police and local media said, becoming the latest female medical worker to be killed in a country with a desperate shortage of trained women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afghanistan\u2019s Taliban rulers have banned women from almost all work outside the home, and female medics are among the only women allowed to go out to work \u2013 putting them at added risk because they are so visible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The woman was reportedly from Tajikistan originally, but had worked on the maternity ward of a hospital in northern Afghanistan for nearly 10 years. 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