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Assassinations On The Rise In Afghanistan

Derwayza Achakzai stands where his wife, Kandahar provincial council member and women's rights activist Sitara Achakzai, was shot and killed outside their home in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Achakzai was returning home on April 12 when four men on two motorcycles drove up and shot her. Bullet holes still mark the outside wall of the building. (Holly Pickett/Atlas Press for NPR)
Derwayza Achakzai stands where his wife, Kandahar provincial council member and women's rights activist Sitara Achakzai, was shot and killed outside their home in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Achakzai was returning home on April 12 when four men on two motorcycles drove up and shot her. Bullet holes still mark the outside wall of the building. (Holly Pickett/Atlas Press for NPR)

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