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Waiting to get killed by Taliban: Afghanistan female mayor Zarifa Ghafari
Kabul/IBNS: After insurgent group Taliban invaded Afghanistan, a female mayor of the country, Zarifa Ghafari, said she won't flee even if that would lead to her death.
In an interview with British outlet iNews, Ghafari said, "I'm sitting here waiting for them to come. There is no one to help me or my family. I'm just sitting with them and my husband.
"And they will come for people like me and kill me. I can't leave my family. And anyway, where would I go?"
Ghafari, an Afghan advocate, activist, politician and entrepreneur, became the youngest mayor in the country at the age of 26 in 2018.
She is the incumbent mayor of Maidan Shahr, the capital city of the Wardak province of Afghanistan.
After days of fighting with the security forces and capturing territories, Taliban entered Kabul city Sunday and took control over the Presidential Palace.
President Ashraf Ghani fled the country as the insurgents entered the country.
Scenes of desperation were witnessed at Kabul airport Monday as hundreds of people, who are desperate to leave Afghanistan, clung on to a moving US Air Force C-17 aircraft on the tarmac.
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