a mayor had to flee in hiding to avoid being killed by the Taliban

“My voice has a power that no weapon has”Ghafari said in an interview with the BBC, trying to separate their method of combat from that of the Talibans, perpetrators of several attacks from which she was able to escape unscathed, but not his father, a senior Afghan army soldier assassinated in 2018.

Soon after taking power, youTaliban commando came to his house and beat his security guard, a fact that motivated the The Afghan mayor’s exit hidden in the back floor of a car.

“When we got to the airport gate, there were Taliban fighters everywhere “Ghafari commented on the script before which the Turkish Ambassador in Kabul helped her board a flight to Turkey.

“I thought I would never go through something like this in my life, but when I got on the plane to leave my country, it was more painful than losing my father “, said Ghafari, currently detained in Düsseldorf.

“I will never be able to handle the pain I feel in my heart”, but “we have to understand each other,” he said, referring to his intention to meet politicians and leaders from around the world to raise awareness of the Afghan situation and even with the Taliban.

“It’s time for us to resolve the issues with the Taliban. I am ready to take on this responsibility, ”she said.

After coming to power on August 15, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that women “will be very active in society, but within the framework of Islam”, trying to distance themselves from the period 1996-2001 where they publicly murdered and executed thousands of women. , applying medieval Islamic Sharia law. However, for Ghafari, the words of the Taliban “never correspond to their actions”. And this is happening again today in Afghanistan, where the UN and several NGOs or directly relatives of the victims report attacks, threats and even murders against women almost daily.