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Women in policing in Afghanistan

An Afghan National Police women at the International Women’s Day ceremony at the Ministry of Interior in Kabul, 2010

Many consider it shameful for women to work outside the home, where they may meet men from outside their family.

• Women working away from home, let alone as police, was prohibited since the Muslim conquests of Afghanistan, until its reintroduction by the NATO Assistance Force.

• Colonel Jameela Bayaz is promoted to the District Police Chief of Kabul's 1st District. Her district has close to 300 police personnel, including eight women.
• Death threats: Islam Bibi worked in Lashkar Gah, heading a team of female officers in the criminal investigation department, a job that most of her family were implacably opposed to. "My brother, father and sisters were all against me. In fact my brother tried to kill me three times". //The Taliban has also run a campaign of intimidation and assassination against both working women and government officials, making female officials particularly vulnerable.//In 2008 the Taliban killed Malalai Kakar, the head of the department of crimes against women in nearby Kandahar city and at the time the most senior female police officer in the country.//Two years earlier the provincial head of women's affairs for Kandahar, the Taliban's birthplace, was killed. Last year two women who held the same post in eastern Laghman province were shot dead within six months.