Afghanistan's first female mayor said she was waiting for militants to come and kill her.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/afghanistans-first-woman-mayor-flees-country-footwell-car-bag-head-taliban-came-video/</ref> "I’m sitting here waiting for them to come. There is no one to help me or my family. I’m just sitting with them and my husband. And they will come for people like me and kill me. I can’t leave my family."<ref>https://inews.co.uk/news/world/afghanistans-first-female-mayor-waiting-taliban-come-kill-her-1152127</ref> Female journalists feared for their lives and many have been "taken off air" as the Taliban's reign of terror began.<ref>https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15894474/woman-eye-gouged-taliban/</ref> An Afghan woman told BBC Women's Hour: "I received an update from Kabul where they are going house to house searching for women who were activists, women who were bloggers, [[YouTube]]rs, any women who had a role in the development of civil society in Afghanistan."<ref>https://twitter.com/BBCWomansHour/status/1427287851016798213</ref> | Afghanistan's first female mayor said she was waiting for militants to come and kill her.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/afghanistans-first-woman-mayor-flees-country-footwell-car-bag-head-taliban-came-video/</ref> "I’m sitting here waiting for them to come. There is no one to help me or my family. I’m just sitting with them and my husband. And they will come for people like me and kill me. I can’t leave my family."<ref>https://inews.co.uk/news/world/afghanistans-first-female-mayor-waiting-taliban-come-kill-her-1152127</ref> Female journalists feared for their lives and many have been "taken off air" as the Taliban's reign of terror began.<ref>https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15894474/woman-eye-gouged-taliban/</ref> An Afghan woman told BBC Women's Hour: "I received an update from Kabul where they are going house to house searching for women who were activists, women who were bloggers, [[YouTube]]rs, any women who had a role in the development of civil society in Afghanistan."<ref>https://twitter.com/BBCWomansHour/status/1427287851016798213</ref> |