(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 17 - The Taliban "will come for people like me and kill me. I am sitting here waiting for them to arrive. There is no one to help me or my family. Stosolo sitting with them and my husband. Not I can leave my family. And anyway, where would I go? ": is the dramatic testimony released to the New York Times by Zarifa Ghafari, 27, the youngest mayor of Afghanistan, in the province of Maidan Wardak, who has always been at the forefront of women's rights. Appointed mayor in the summer of 2018 by President AshrafGhani, Ghafari is one of the few women ever to have held a government post in the very conservative city of MaidanShar.
"I'm broken. I don't know who to rely on. But I won't stop now, even if they'll come looking for me again.I am no longer afraid of dying ". (ANSA).