Judge murdered in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, third judge shot dead in a month

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In Jalalabad, Afghanistan, another judge Hafizulla was killed. According to the police, three judges have been murdered in the last one month. The latest event is Wednesday.

Nangarhar province police spokesman Farid Khan said that Justice Hafizullah was attacked when he was on a motor rickshaw while going to work.

At the same time, according to a doctor at Jalalabad Public Hospital, several bullets have been found in Hafizulla’s body. It is worth noting that earlier two women judges working for the Supreme Court in Kabul were also shot dead by some gunmen on 17 Jannari.

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After the killing of the women judges, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that the Taliban was not behind the attack. The Afghanistan government has blamed the Taliban for the incidents of assassination in recent months, while the Taliban have alleged that the government is carrying out such killings to disrupt the peace process.

In the same week, at least two people were killed in separate bomb blasts on Tuesday in Kabul. Officials said the bombs were attached to the car. He said that a maulvi, the head of an Islamic non-profit organization, was also among the dead. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani called the Maulvi’s death a terrorist attack.

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Meanwhile, a US watchdog group said in a report on 1 February that Taliban attacks in Afghanistan capital Kabul have increased, targeting government officials, civil society leaders and journalists.

The report comes after US President Joe Biden’s administration announced plans to revisit the peace deal between the US and the Taliban. The former US President Donald Trump’s administration and the Taliban signed the deal in February last year.

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