Afghan conflict: new dimension

This is apropos a Business Recorder news item “Afghan girl kills two Taliban fighters after parents murdered” carried by the newspaper on Wednesday. The report said that an Afghan girl, Qamar Gul, shot dead two Taliban fighters and wounded several more after they dragged her parents from their home and killed them for supporting the government. The fighters were looking for her father, a government supporter, which is why the Taliban fighters went to his house and dragged him out. When his wife resisted, the Taliban fighters reportedly killed the couple outside their home.

This development seems to have added another dimension to the Afghan conflict because it’s a completely new consideration coinciding with the phased withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. More importantly, the incident has all the characteristics of sensational films produced by Hollywood.

Peshawar Nasima Khan