Afghanistan’s female assassins who lured men to their deaths freed from prison as part of peace deal
- The two women had been on death row after several killings, including the murder of an Afghan intelligence agent at their home
- Court documents show the two were prolific killers – sometimes setting deadly ‘honeytraps’ but on other occasions using brute force
While the ultraconservative Islamists ban women from many areas of life – often forcing them to stay home and barring them from most jobs – they are not above using them as killers.
Muzghan and her aunt Nasreen walked free from jail in September after confessing to being members of the Taliban’s ultra-violent Haqqani network.
The two women had been on death row after several killings, including the murder of an Afghan intelligence agent at their home. They had used Nasreen’s daughter as bait “under the pretext of selling her body”, on the orders of a Taliban commander, a security official said.
The pair then shot the man with a pistol fitted with a silencer and crammed his corpse into a metal box that they left in the local graveyard, case files say.
Court documents show the two were prolific killers – adept not only at setting the deadly “honeytrap” but also at brute murders – including of their own relatives.