Gunmen kill director of women's affairs in southern Afghanistan

Two gunmen on a motorbike killed the provincial director of Afghanistan’s Ministry of Women’s Affairs outside her home in the southern city of Kandahar today.

Safia Ahmed-jan was murdered outside the front gate of her home as she was walking to her office, said Tawfiq ul-Ulhakim Parant, senior adviser to the women’s ministry in Kabul.