Woman beheaded in Afghanistan for entering a city without her husband

Another instance of atrocities on women in Afghanistan has come to light. A woman has reportedly been beheaded by a group of armed men after she entered a city without her husband. The incident took place in the remote village of Latti in Sar-e-Pul province, which is under Taliban control but, the Taliban have rejected any involvement in the incident.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 28 December 2016.

It seems the 30-year-old woman was targeted because she went out alone without her husband, who is in Iran. She had apparently gone to the market to shop. Under Taliban rule, women are not supposed to leave their homes unless they are accompanied by a close male relative. Moreover, they are banned from working or education and are forced to wear the burqa.
Earlier this month five female Afghan guards who were working in the airport in southern Kandahar were killed by unknown gunmen as they were on their way to work. These five women were in charge of searching female travelers at the Kandahar airport, and had been hired by a private security company. They were killed by two gunmen on motorbike who followed their van and opened fire on them, killing them as well as their driver.


Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org

Drone delivers hot food items and cold beverages to customers' homes in the US

18th rhino killed in Kaziranga - this exceeds the figures of last year

Christmas in Delhi - fancy Santa hats from China sell for Rs 400 a piece


Moody in silent mode over black money (satire)

Didi upbeat about Christmas tourism (satire)

Lord Shiva and Goddess Durga discuss swipe machines (satire)


London Police deputes anti-terrorism patrol units under Operation Servator

Australian police foil a IS terror plot targeting Melbourne during Christmas

12 persons killed as truck ploughs into Christmas shoppers in Berlin


Carrie Fisher of Star Wars fame stops breathing on board a non-stop London-Los Angeles flight

Aamir Khan's Dangal expected to cross Rs 100 crore in first weekend

Glastonbury Festival could shift from Somerset to a new location towards the Midlands

MI5 agent reveals how he tracked down a suspected Islamic terrorist

It was like a mission from the story books - the MI5 agent had dressed up as a tramp in urine-soaked clothes and sat in front of a mosque while tracking a suspect. He was part of an MI5 team that was tracking a suspected Islamist terrorist and he sat outside a London mosque during evening prayers. To make it look realistic, he was dressed as a tramp and pretended to ask for change. His own clothes were soaked in his own urine to compliment that cover.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 4 October 2016.

While keeping watch, he observed that the number of woman worshippers who left was more than the number that had gone in. He immediately alerted the team that there was a possibility the suspect had changed his appearance. Actually, he had changed into a burka and was pretending to be a woman. Agents of the MI5 team called in a Special Forces unit to arrest the terrorist and two Range Rovers slammed into the suspect's car. The man was dragged him out of the car and the team found weapons and pipe bombs in the boot.
His planned target was for the very next day. It seems he was waiting for a couple of coach loads of children who were returning from a trip to France and his plan was to kill them, the teachers and the parents.
The MI5 agent had spent 10 years as a surveillance agent for British intelligence.


Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org


Some more interesting links -

Taiwan struck by Typhoon Megi, third typhoon in two weeks

Terrorist alarm in Uran was the figment of a 12-year-old schoolgirl's imagination

Tourist season in Kaziranga National Park to start from October 1 instead of November 1


Moody is off mood – Na Buzz had fooled him again (satire)

Didi’s version of ABCD - cycle to work to bypass potholes (satire)

Goddess Durga and her kids wait for the annual bash (satire)


9300 people killed in Russian airstrikes in Syria during last year

MH17 flight shot down by rocket over Ukraine in 2014 was work of pro-Moscow rebels

Shooting in Burlington - gunman on the run after shooting dead four women in a shopping center


Mark Wahlberg talks about movie on Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico

Adele creates a record - her latest album 25 has gone platinum in the US

Movie memorabilia go under the hammer - Batman's batpod fetches £312,000