An all-party group of MPs is looking on the Canadian authorities to assist Afghan ladies who had been lawmakers earlier than the Taliban takeover get to security.

Police in Kabul stated Sunday that former MP Mursal Nabizada and her bodyguard had been shot lifeless by unknown attackers.

She was among the many few feminine parliamentarians who stayed within the capital metropolis after the Taliban seized energy in August 2021.

Six Canadian MPs say in a joint assertion that they’ve labored collectively since final October to carry the 9 remaining ladies to Canada.

They are saying the scenario in Afghanistan is extra harmful by the day and the Taliban are controlling ladies with a “brutal gender apartheid system.”

The MPs say Canada has an ethical accountability to assist the ladies flee the nation.

“For the sake of the lives of those eight ladies, we urge the Canadian authorities to behave on this matter urgently and take rapid motion to help in getting these ladies to security,” the assertion says.

The group contains Bloc Quebecois MP Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe, the Inexperienced Get together’s Elizabeth Could, the NDP’s Heather McPherson, the Conservatives’ Alex Ruff and the Liberals’ Marcus Powlowski and Leah Taylor Roy.

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Their assertion provides that no girl is protected in Afghanistan below the Taliban.

“However that is notably so for these courageous ladies MPs who led the way in which in opening up public and civic area for ladies and women below the earlier Afghan authorities.”

Nabizada was elected in 2019 to symbolize Kabul and stayed in workplace till the Taliban takeover.

She was a member of the parliamentary defence fee and labored at a personal non-governmental group, the Institute for Human Assets Improvement and Analysis.

Native police chief Molvi Hamidullah Khalid stated on the weekend that investigations into her dying are underway. He didn’t reply questions on doable motives.

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