2 Main News Page Sharbat Gula Case: Gunmen Kill Five Female Afghan NADRA Officials Freed on Bail PESHAWAR - Two former officials of the Airport Staff in Kandahar National Database and Registration Au- KANDAHAR - Five female Afghan and had been hired by a private secu- thority (NADRA), accused of issuing the guards working in the airport in south- rity company. “Two gunmen on mo- Pakistani Computerised National Iden- ern Kandahar were killed by unknown torbike followed their van and opened tity Card (CNIC) to National Geographic’s gunmen as they were on their way to fire on them, killing the five and their famed ‘Afghan Girl’, Sharbat Gula, have work, security officials said on Sat- driver this morning, said Samim. been granted bail. urday, the latest in a string of attacks No group has claimed responsibility Peshawar High Court judge Justice Yahya against women in Afghanistan. for Saturday’s attack but the Taliban in- Afridi ordered the release of Emad Khan From bomb attacks to targeted or hon- surgents waging an insurgency to top- and Mohsin Ehsan on bail on Friday after or killings or domestic abuses, Afghan ple the foreign-backed government of hearing arguments from the defence coun- women have borne the brunt of the 15 President Ashraf Ghani oppose wom- sel and the Federal Investigation Agency years of conflicts during the Taliban- en working outside their homes. (FIA) lawyer. led insurgency as security has dete- Although Afghan women had made The pre-arrest bail of another ex-official riorated and violence has increased in hard-fought rights gains in education of NADRA, Palwasha Afridi, has already most parts of the country. and work since the collapse of austere been confirmedin the case. The petition- Samim Khpulwak, spokesman for the Taliban regime in 2001, there are grow- ers’ lawyer, Amir Javed, submitted his cli- governor of Kandahar, said the five ing fears that these could reverse with ents had played no role in verification of women were in charge of searching fe- the deterioration of security and in- the documents that led to issuance of the male travelers at the Kandahar airport, crease in violence. ...(More on P4)...(15) CNIC to Sharbat Gula. Despite aversion from the FIA lawyer, the Imam Detained 3 Killed in Gun judge granted the petitioners. On October Over Marrying 2 Drone Attack Kills 16 IS Fighters 20, the FIA had registered the case against Attack on NDS the three former NADRA officials for issu- Sisters off to a Man JALALABAD - A total of 16 ing CNICs to Sharbat Gula and two other Afghans, shown as JALALABAD - A tribal elder Building in Paghman militants affiliated with Is- ...(More on P4)...(16) and prayer leader, who con- lamic State (IS) group were ducted marriage between two KABUL CITY - Three people, including an killed after an unmanned Zabul Policeman sisters and a man, has been intelligence official and a woman, were killed plane targeted their hideouts arrested in Khewa district of and another two persons injured in a gun in Achin district of the east- Hangs Himself eastern Nangarhar province, attack in Paghman district of central Kabul ern Nangarhar province on an official said on Saturday. province on Saturday, an official said. Friday, provincial police chief KABUL - Zabul police confirmed the in- Attaullah Khogyani, the gov- Paghman district’s police chief, Col. Amrul- Hazrat Hussain Mashriqwal cident and said the policeman, named Ja- ernor’s spokesman, told a lah, told Pajhwok Afghan News two gunmen said Saturday. mal, had been stationed at a check post in press conference here that the opened fire at the National Directorate of The air raids, according to Naw Bahar district of Zabul. girls and their family had ac- Security or NDS compound in the district’s the official, were conducted A policeman from Zabul province hanged cused 15 individuals of being bazaar at around 11am today. in Abdulkhil village of Achin himself on Friday evening, local officials involved in the forbidden act. He said the dead included an NDS official district Friday night during said Saturday. The girl nicknamed Saima had and a woman, and the injured included a po- which a huge weapon cache Zabul police confirmed the incident and told reporters at the Nangarhar liceman and a woman who had been evacu- of IS militants was also de- said the policeman, named Jamal, had Women’s Affairs department ated to hospital and their condition was said stroyed. Jalalabad city as its capital, Scores of IS fighters have re- been stationed at a check post in Naw Ba- on November 20 that her hus- to be stable. Militants’ loyal to IS are yet to 120 km east of Kabul, has portedly been killed by air- har district of Zabul. band on the very first night of He said the attackers had escaped and no make comments on the situa- been the scene of IS outfit’s strikes in the eastern Nan- According to Zabul police, it is not clear their marriage accused her of group had taken responsibility for the gun tion. violent incidents over the garhar province over the past why he hanged himself but police have losing her virginity before the attack. (Pajhwok) Nangarhar province with past nearly one year. couple of months. (Xinhua) started an investigation. (Tolonews) wedlock and the same night married her younger sister. Khogyani said the provincial Afghan Forces Kill 19 Militants administration was serious in Girls’ School Torched in Logar investigating the matter and in Paktia PUL-I-ALAM - A girl’s school finding main reason behind GARDEZ - Security forces has been torched by unknown the issue. All the perpetrators have killed 19 militants over people in the Mohammad involved would be arrested the past seven days in Zar- Agha district of central Logar soon. mat district of the eastern province, local officials said on According to Khogyani, the Paktia province, district gov- Saturday. Imam marrying the two sis- ernor Kaptan Ekhlas said Sat- Logar Education Department ters to one man, named Malak urday. spokesman Shapoor Arab told Ikram, also a tribal elder, was “The operations were Pajhwok Afghan News the involved and had been recent- launched in Zarmat district school ‘Shaheed Shahsawar ly detained by security forces. one week ago and conclud- Secondary School for girls’ was He assured the provincial ad- ed last night; 19 rebels were set ablaze in Kotabkhel village ministration would give the killed and two others injured on Friday night. victim girls their rights and in the operations,” Ekhlas Zarmat district,” the official civilians, including women He said a group of unknown allow no one to violate their told Xinhua. asserted. and children, during the op- armed men entered the school, 10 rooms, teaching documents, resident of Kotab khel locality, rights. However, the man’s “The armed militants have However, he admitted that erations. overpowered the guards and books, tables and chairs had Ajmal, said they realized dur- second wife – the younger sis- fled the area and law and mine blasts by militants had Meanwhile, Zabihullah Ma- torched the building after been gutted. Some 550 girls ing night time that the school ter --had ...(More on P4)...(17) order have been retorted to claimed the lives of eight jahid, ...(More on P4)...(18) pouring fuel on it. 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