As yet, we don't know who's killed her. We don't know where the investigation is at, though the Kabul police say there will be one. There's a complete lack of enforcement in any rules that protect women. Violence against women seems to be totally acceptable under the Taliban. Anyone can do anything to a woman in the country now.
The response to the death of the 29-year-old has differed from that of previous cases of police killings; we ask what the tragedy indicates about how America deals with police violence. Our correspondent says a lawmaker’s murder in Afghanistan highlights the misery of women under the Taliban. And why a decades-old model of animal and human learning is under fire.
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