Sunday Mirror (Northern Ireland)
‘I fear starving to death as a prisoner in my flat’
A TERRIFIED Afghan woman fears she may starve to death because she faces being killed if she goes out for food.
Marzia Hussaini says the Taliban’s harsh interpretation of Islamic law is already being implemented and she is no longer allowed to leave her Kabul apartment without a male companion.
The 27-year-old also fears she could be killed if the Taliban find out she once worked as an advisor for the Afghan Government and US military.
She said: “I am a prisoner in my own home. I can’t even go grocery shopping here alone. I am so afraid.
“I tried to go out to buy food but the Taliban pushed me back into my home and told me I wasn’t allowed to leave without men.
“But I am here alone, I do not have any men.
And I have nothing to eat. I have no option for escape and people are dying.
“The Taliban is looking door-to-door for people who worked with the US and the Afghan Government. They will kill us because we worked with the US.” Marzia, Afghanistan’s only female PhD student in hydro-politics, said: “I really beg UK and US officials, please do not leave Afghan women here. “Over the past 20 years you’ve taught us how we can be brave and independent... If you leave us alone here in Kabul we will die.” Marzia tried to get a plane at Kabul Airport earlier this week but all flights were cancelled.
She says she saw “many painful scenes”, including a distraught father carrying his dead baby daughter and girls weeping in fear that Taliban soldiers would rape them.