supposed militants in Afghanistan have shot dead an Indian woman who authored a best-selling memoir about her get away from the Taliban in the 1990s.
Police officials in the insurgency-hit Paktika province, in Afghanistan's east, said Sushmita Banerjee was pulled by armed Taliban insurgents from her husband's home on the outskirts of the provincial capital late Wednesday night.
The gunmen then shot the 49-year-old frequently, before dumping her body by the edge of a road close to a localized religious school where it was discovered Thursday forenoon.
"We discovered her bullet-riddled body beside a madrassa on the outskirts of Sharan town this morning," provincial police head Dawlat Khan Zadran said, affirming previous accounts from Indian newspapers.
"She had been shot 20 times and some of her hair had been torn off by the militants," he said, supplementing that masked men had joined up the writer and her Afghan husband, localizedizedized businessman Jaanbaz Khan, before executing her.
Banerjee's publication, Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife, was made into a Bollywood movie in 2003.
policeman proposed the publication may have been the cause the militants went after her.
"Our investigation... shows that the militants had grievances against her for certain thing she had written or notified in the past," provincial police chief said.
The Taliban, which has been conducting a bloody insurgency since the toppling of its regime in late 2001, was not reachable for commentary.
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