Feeling totally helpless and abandoned, Zarifa Ghafari -- who made history by becoming the first female mayor in Afghanistan in 2018 -- is waiting at home for the Taliban insurgents to come and kill her.
"I'm sitting here waiting for them to come... and they'll come for people like me and kill me," Ghafari, who is the mayor of Maidan Shar, told British newspaper iNews.
Ghafari said she couldn't leave her family, and if she did, she said she has nowhere to go as the Taliban have taken control of Afghanistan.
On Sunday, the Taliban seized power after Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani fled the country "to avoid bloodshed," reports said.
Moments after the takeover, hundreds of Afghans were seen rushing to Kabul's International Airport in an attempt to flee the country.
In videos shared on social media, several people were seen clinging to a U.S. Air Force transport plane as it taxied on the runway and took off into the sky.
The Taliban's swift takeover of the country's capital city of Kabul raised worries about the fate of human rights, particularly of women, as the terror group kept the door open to enforcing the stern Sharia Law.
Ghafari has received death threats from the Taliban. In November last year, her father, Gen. Abdul Wasi Ghafari, was killed by Taliban fighters, just weeks after the third attempt to kill her was foiled.
The administration of former U.S. President Donald Trump honored Ghafari in March last year with the International Women of Courage Award. During that time, she warned that women in the country are always worried about their future under Taliban rule.
U.S. President Joe Biden called for all American military personnel to be pulled out of Afghanistan after the Taliban regained dominion of the country.
In a press conference the following day, Biden said he stands firm in withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
U.S. troops, he said, have no reason to engage in a war and being killed in a war that Afghan forces "aren't willing to fight for themselves."
Meanwhile, Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban's chief spokesperson, promised the safety and lives of women would be protected.
