Yesterday on April 2, 2022, the Taliban’s deputy commander for Takhar province killed his wife Guldasta and his brother-in-law. The motive behind this incident is still unknown.
Since the Taliban came to power, mysterious murders are on the rise and have been taking place almost on daily basis across the country.
“Such murders should be classified as domestic violence,” said university professor Hossein Etemadi. Unfortunately, domestic violence in Afghanistan has been increasing since the Taliban takeover. “absence of a proper constitution, unemployment, illiteracy, poverty, and structural violence ate the main causes of such murders”