
Taliban kills woman for wearing tight clothes in Afghanistan's Balkh province
India Today
A young woman was killed by the Taliban for wearing tight clothes in Afghanistan's Balkh province.
A young woman was allegedly killed by the Taliban for wearing tight clothes and not being accompanied by a male relative in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province. “The woman was shot dead in the village of Samar Qand, which is controlled by Taliban," a report by Radio Azadi said in Afghanistan.
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