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Interpol slams top Afghan policewoman’s murder

LYON: The global police agency Interpol condemned Monday the murder of a high-ranking female Afghan police officer, warning that 700 of her country’s officers have been killed this year.

Lieutenant Colonel Malalai Kakar, a 41-year-old mother-of-six was the highest ranking woman in the Afghan police and the head of the office investigating crimes against women in the southern city of Kandahar.

She was shot dead on Sunday by two men on a motorbike as she drove to work. Her 18-year-old son was wounded in the attack, which bore the hallmarks of the Taliban militia that once made the city its base.

Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble paid tribute to Kakar and to her colleagues in the Afghan force, which faces daily attacks from insurgents opposed to President Hamid Karzai’s western-backed government.

“It is time that leaders of governments around the world recognize that law enforcement often confronts the same dangers as the military, but rarely receives the same level of recognition and support,” he said.

“An estimated 700 police officers have been killed in Afghanistan in the first six months of 2008,” he continued. afp

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