PUL-I-KHUMRI (Pajhwok): A dozen women were murdered during the outgoing solar year in northern Baghlan province, where a total of 250 cases of violence against women emerged, an official said on Sunday.
Baghlan women affairs department director, Oranoos Atify, told a gathering here that last year her department registered 203 cases of violence against women in Baghlan but the number increased to 250 incidents this year.
She added 12 of the cases were murder and the rest were harassment, sexual assault and violence cases, adding she was concerned that only two out of 12 murder cases were addressed . . .
