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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Afghan female provincial legislator shot dead AFP - 1 hour 19 minutes ago KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) - - Taliban gunmen on motorbikes gunned down a woman provincial legislator in Afghanistan Sunday as authorities said they had killed 40 more Taliban in their battle to defeat the extremists. ADVERTISEMENT Legislator Sitara Achikzai, a high school teacher and women's rights activist in her 50s, was shot dead outside her home in the volatile southern city of Kandahar, the head of the council, Ahmad Wali Karzai, told AFP. "She has been martyred by two men on motorbikes and the case is under investigation," said Karzai, brother of President Hamid Karzai. A spokesman for the insurgent Taliban movement, Yousuf Ahmadi, told AFP by telephone that his militia had carried out the assassination. Achikzai was targeted because she did not have a "good background," he said, without explaining what this meant. The Taliban -- who had restrictive policies against women when they were in government between 1996 and 2001, including barring them from work outside of the home -- have carried out similar assassinations in Kandahar. They admitted to shooting dead the country's most high-profile female police officer in the city last year and are also suspected of the 2006 assassination of head of the provincial women's affairs department. The fundamentalists were also blamed for an attack in Kandahar in November last year in which acid was sprayed into the faces of schoolgirls. Afghanistan's provincial councils are elected authorities that act as provincial parliaments and are a key facet of the war-torn country's attempts to install democracy after the ouster of the Taliban government. Kandahar province, from where the Taliban rose as a militia in the early 1990s, had three women on its provincial council. One of them, Zarghona Kakar, survived an assassination attempt two years ago in which her husband was killed, an AFP reporter said. A male member of the council was shot dead in 2006. On April 1 this year, Taliban militants attacked the offices of the Kandahar provincial council on April 1 with four suicide attackers storming the building, some of them opening fire as they went, killing 13 people. Council elections are due on August 20, coinciding with the presidential vote, and authorities are concerned that the Al-Qaeda-linked Taliban will target the polls. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, which is helping Afghanistan to fight the insurgency and extend government authority, has requested thousands of reinforcements to help shore up security for the vote. Security forces reported meanwhile Sunday they had killed 40 Taliban militants in separate battles over the weekend. In one, the rebels ambushed a joint Afghan and foreign forces patrol district of Zabul province late Saturday, sparking an exchange of gunfire that left 22 rebels dead, provincial police chief Abdul Rehman Sarjang told AFP. Separately, troops killed 18 insurgents in the northeastern province of Kunar late Friday, ISAF said in a statement. An ISAF officer in Kunar had earlier said the battle was on Saturday. There are more than 70,000 international troops under NATO and US command in Afghanistan helping in the fight against the insurgents. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article 0 users recommend Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: Asia Pacific Sri Lanka declares 48-hour ceasefireAFP - 1 hour 17 minutes ago Thai government declares emergencyReuters - 1 hour 23 minutes ago Suspected Islamic militants arrested in BangladeshAP - 1 hour 29 minutes ago Female official killed in southern AfghanistanAP - 2 hours 11 minutes ago SKorean prosecutors quiz ex-president's wife, sonAP - Monday, April 13 Enlarge Photo Afghan female provincial legislator shot dead Most Popular – Asia Pacific Viewed UN sounds warning after Antarctica ice shelf rips Bad mood, better recall, researchers find Pirate hostage siege, Italian tug grabbed Harry Potter actor arrested over cannabis find US budget deficit nears $1 trillion View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Southeast Asia Pte Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Community - Intellectual Property Rights Policy - Help

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