Afghan Biographies

Mangal, Mina Mrs. killed


Name Mangal, Mina Mrs. killed
Ethnic backgr. Pashtun
Date of birth 1991
Function/Grade Adviser Cultural Commission Wolesi Jirga
History and Biodata

2. Previous Function:
Journalist
Adviser to Cultural Commission of Wolesi Jirga (20190511)
3. Biodata:
Mrs. Mina Mangal Meena Mangal daughter of Talib Jan was born 1991 in Paktia Province. She went to Malalay Highschool and studied Journalism later at Kardan Institute of Higher Education. She was a former Journalist. She had worked as a news presenter for three local TV networks in Kabul, including Pashtu channel LEMAR TV, Shamshad News, Ariana TV and TOLO TV.  Shopkeepers who witnessed the shooting near Kabul's Karte Naw market said  that two men appeared on a motorcycle while Mangal was waiting for a car. The witnesses said a gunman on the motorcycle fired four shots in the air to disperse people in the market and then fired two shots that hit Mangal in the chest. Photographs of the scene published by the website of Ariana News showed Mangal's body in the street, lying face down in a pool of blood. She was shot dead at around 7:20 am in Kart-e-Naw 8th police district of Kabul city. Mina and her husband Jawed had controversy and hostility (due to domestic violence) as her relatives described.at the same time as they were separated. and that her father statements were threatened through telephone calls, and their claim was directly above Mina’s previous husband, the police in her search It follows the case. The accused has not yet been arrested and has escaped from the area, and the police are on his way to arrest him. ”(20190511)

 

She also ran popular social-media pages that discussed the rights of Afghan women to work and for Afghan girls to go to school.

Mangal had written extensively about being forced into an arranged marriage against her will in 2017 and the process she had to go through to obtain a divorce, which was confirmed in early May 2019. Mina and her husband had controversy and hostility at the same time as they were separated and her fathers statements were threatened through telephone calls, and their claim was directly above Mina’s previous husband, the police in her search It follows the case. The accused has not yet been arrested and has escaped from the area, and the police are on his way to arrest him.

Mangal had posted recently on her social-media pages that she was receiving death threats from unknown sources.

She was married.


 

Last Modified 2019-05-13
Established 2019-05-11