Malalai Kakar

Malalai Kakar (2004)

Malalai Kakar (* 1967 - September 28, 2008 in Kandahar , Afghanistan ) was a prominent police officer in Afghanistan who returned to Kandahar after the Taliban had been ousted in 2001. With the rank of lieutenant colonel, she was in charge of the Kandahar police department for “crime against women”. She was shot dead by the Taliban in September 2008.

Life

Kakar joined the police in 1982, following the example of her father, Lieutenant Colonel Gul Mohammad Kakar, and brother. She was the first woman to successfully graduate from Kandahar Police Academy and to hold the post of investigator with the Kandahar Police Department .

She had already been a police officer for seven years when the Taliban took power. She then fled to Pakistan, where she stayed for ten years and started a family. She returned to Kandahar in 2001.

She was the mother of six children. After several attacks on her, she kept a rifle, an AK-47 , close at hand in her home and never fell asleep at night without a weapon close by. On her way home and on her way home, she wore a burqa with a pistol underneath, and in police work a uniform. The Helmand and Kandahar area is heavily influenced by the Taliban and the wearing of guns in public is a part of the street scene.

She was the best-known female police officer in Afghanistan, who appeared unveiled in public and also smoking cigarettes. She expressed her attitude towards the mirror as follows: “My position is dangerous, but I am not afraid. The Taliban will never take control here again. "

Police duties

In Afghanistan there were around 500 female police officers and over 92,500 police officers in 2009, including around 15 in Kandahar.

Because of the strict segregation of the sexes in society, female police officers in Afghanistan perform important functions in house searches and roadside checks. Kakar Malalai also carried out numerous house searches in which weapons and drugs were confiscated. She led a unit that dealt primarily with crimes against women and young people.

Assassination and Consequences

Malalai Kakar was shot dead by two armed motorcyclists in her vehicle on the way to her police station early in the morning on September 28, 2008. Her 18-year-old son, the driver of the vehicle, was seriously injured in a head hit.

Since that attack, police officers in Kandahar wear either a burqa or a head cover during investigations so that they are not recognized. The son of Malalai Farhad announced at the beginning of January 2009 that the Kakar family is constantly changing their apartment in Kandahar and that they will leave the place because he is concerned about the life of his father and his brothers.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ news.bbc.co.uk : Top Afghan policewoman shot dead , BBC September 9, 2008. Accessed October 23, 2011 (English)
2. ↑ ^{a b} marieclaire.com : Dina Temple-Raston: Kandahar's Top Cop is a Woman , p. 1, April 9, 2007. Retrieved October 23, 2011 (English)
3. ↑ marieclaire.com ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Dina Temple-Raston: Kandahar's Top Cop is a Woman , p. 2, April 9, 2007. Retrieved October 23, 2011 (English) 
4. ↑ ^{a b} spiegel.de : Died. Malalai Kakar , issue 41/2008. Retrieved October 23, 2011
5. ↑ gmanews.tv ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Afghan police work to overcome barriers for women , dated December 26, 2009 
6. ↑ sueddeutsche.de : Taliban kill high-ranking policewoman , from September 28, 2008, accessed on October 23, 2011
7. ↑ winnipeg.ctv.ca : Female Afghan police officers brave death threats (Calgary TV), January 4, 2009 (English)