According to a new report, one of the Taliban attackers killed by the Afghan teen Qamar Gul, who was later hailed on social media as a hero, was her own husband.
Qamar’s husband Mohamed Naeem was fighting on the side of the Taliban and was apparently seeking his forced return after a fight with the family, relatives and local officials told the New York Times.
Qamar’s father, Shah Gul Rahimi, had reached an agreement with Naeem, a resident of an adjacent village, about four years ago. Naeem would marry Qamar as his second wife, and Rahimi would take Naeem’s second niece as his second wife, according to the report.
Tensions began when Rahimi’s new wife visited her family and refused to return to her husband, the newspaper reported.
So when Qamar came home, her father chose to keep her until the family returned his wife and Naeem paid a debt of $ 3,000, according to the report.
However, Naeem decided to handle things in a different way: With the help of a Taliban commander, he came to know who would help him bring his wife home at no cost.
Naeem, along with a dozen other fighters, turned up at the hillside family’s home in the early hours of July 17 for the surprise attack.
Both Rahimi and Qamar’s mother, Fatima, were shot dead.
Qamar went into action and grabbed her father’s gun, killing her husband and another assailant, according to the Times. He also wounded the Taliban high commander, the newspaper reported.
Insurgents took off after a group of pro-government villagers and militiamen involved them in a shooting.
Since then, Afghan security forces have moved Qamar and his 12-year-old brother Habibullah, who was with his sister during the tough hour-long trial, to a safer location.
In a statement two days later, the Ghor provincial governor praised Qamar and Habibullah for defeating an “offensive attack” by the “Taliban terror group” and forcing the “bloodthirsty Taliban to flee, leaving two of their dead behind. on the battlefield”. reported paper.
The statement also attached photos of two bodies, one of them Gul’s husband in his blood-soaked robe.
Since then, a photo of the teenager, wearing a headscarf and holding the gun in her lap, has gone viral.
“Congratulations to your courage!” Najiba Rahmi posted on Facebook. “Well done.”
“The power of an Afghan girl,” wrote Fazila Alizada, another Facebook user.
“We know that parents are irreplaceable, but their revenge will give them relative peace,” Mohamed Saleh published.
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