Paktika province police officials have said that an Indian female writer is killed by unknown armed people last evening.
The 49-year-old Indian writer Sushmita Banerjy is the author of bestselling book titled "Escape from
Taliban". Based on the book a movie produced in 2003 which tells the story of an Afghan escaped from Taliban in 1995. Mrs. Benerjy came to Afghanistan in for the first time in 1989 and married with an Afghan businessman in Paktika province. Later on she was captured by Taliban for two years in 1993.
Mrs. Benerjy has written in her book that before Taliban regime living in Afghanistan was tolerable for her.
In recent years she had come back to Afghanistan to live with her husband.
A police official said to BBC in Kabul that Mrs. Benerjy who was known as" Said Kamala" has been working as a health worker in Paktika Province. She was also engaged in photography and fiming of local women life style.
The police official who didn't want to mention his name charged the Taliban for killing Mrs. Benerjy.
He included: "Taliban tied her husband and other family members, then took her out of her house and killed her. They had thrown her body in front of a school."
No group has officially claimed the responsibility for the murder of Mrs. Benerjy.
