A female police officer in Afghanistan's Ghazni Province has been critically injured in a deadly shooting and has lost her sight after being stabbed in the eye.
According to Reuters, the last thing Khatira, 33, saw was a group of three men on a motorcycle who attacked her after she left a police station in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan.
The assailants shot at him and stabbed him in the eye.
And when she woke up after the attack, she was in the hospital and everything was dark.
"I asked the doctors why I couldn't see anything," he said. The doctors told me that my eyes were bandaged because of the wounds.
"I knew in that moment that they had taken my eyes off me," Khatira said.
The victim, Khatira, and the local administration blamed the attack on Taliban fighters, who denied involvement.
The Taliban say the attackers did so at the behest of Khatira's father because his father was opposed to his job.
The attack not only blinded Khatira but also shattered her dream, for which she had fought a battle.
Khatira had started her career as an officer in the crime branch of Ghazni police station a few months ago.
"I wish I had spent at least a year in the police. If this accident had happened to me after that, it would have been less painful. It happened very quickly. I only had 3 days to work and live my dream," he said. Months only
The attack on Khatira could have provoked a backlash against women's employment in Afghanistan.
Human rights activists say the attack on Khatira is a sign of a growing trend of how severe and often violent the reactions to women's employment can be.
The Taliban are currently in talks with the Afghan government in Doha, Qatar, with many expecting the Taliban to return to power, but progress has been slow and prominent women across Afghanistan and Attacks on officials continue.
In recent months, the Taliban have said they will respect women's rights under Sharia law, but many educated women say they have doubts.
Samira Hamidi, Amnesty International's representative in Afghanistan, says government roles have always been dangerous for Afghan women. The recent escalation of violence has made matters worse.
She says the good things that have been done over the past decade for women's rights in Afghanistan should not fall victim to the peace deal with the Taliban.
Khatira had a childhood dream of working outside the home and after many years of trying to persuade her father, she did not succeed but got the support of her husband.
However, Khatira says her father did not give up.
"Several times, when I went on duty, I saw my father chasing me. He had started contacting the Taliban in the area to stop me from going to work," he said.
Khatira said her father gave the Taliban her ID card to prove she worked for the police.
According to him, on the day he was attacked, his father used to call him all day to ask for his location.
A Ghazni police spokesman also confirmed that they believed the attack was carried out by the Taliban and that Khatira's father had been arrested.
On the other hand, the spokesman said that he was aware of the matter but according to him it was a family issue and he had nothing to do with it.
Khatira has been hiding in Kabul with her five children since the attack. She is recovering and depressed about her career.
She tries to sleep, but is shocked when she hears the sound of a motorcycle. She has to lose contact with her family, including her mother, who blames Khatira for her father's arrest.
Despite the attack, he is hopeful that a doctor abroad may restore his sight, he said, adding that "if it were possible, and I regained my sight, I would resume my job and serve in the police."
