KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN - Two armed men on motorbikes gunned down a woman provincial legislator in Afghanistan’s volatile southern city of Kandahar on Sunday, an official said. Sitara Achikzai was on her way home from work when she was killed in the drive-by shooting outside her house, 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.
He blamed the attack on ‘enemies of Afghanistan’, a term often used to refer to Islamist Taliban insurgents behind a wave of killings, including assassinations, as part of an insurgency. There was however no immediate claim of responsibility.