{"id":1475,"date":"2013-09-05T17:25:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T17:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freedimensional.org\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2013-09-05T17:25:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T17:25:41","slug":"indian-author-shot-dead-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/2013\/09\/indian-author-shot-dead-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian author shot dead in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1476\" alt=\"sbanerjee\" src=\"http:\/\/freedimensional.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sbanerjee-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sbanerjee-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sbanerjee-584x386.jpg 584w, https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sbanerjee.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Unidentified gunmen have shot dead an Indian author in the eastern Afghan province of Paktika, police say.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sushmita Banerjee, the writer of a popular book about her dramatic escape from the Taliban in the 1990s, was shot dead on Wednesday night, police announced on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We found her bullet-riddled body near [a religious school] on the outskirts of Sharan city [Paktika&#8217;s provincial capital] this morning,&#8221; provincial police chief Dawlat Khan Zadran told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Banerjee, 49, was a fairly well-known writer whose book <em>Kabuliwala&#8217;s Bengali Wife<\/em>, about her escape from the Taliban was made into a Bollywood film in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Police on Thursday said that the book may have been the reason she was targeted, saying they had spoken with her husband.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our investigation [&#8230;] indicates that the militants had grievances against her for something she had written or told in the past, which was then turned into a film,&#8221; the provincial police chief said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She had been shot 20 times and some of her hair had been ripped off by the militants,&#8221; Zadran said.<\/p>\n<p>She was married to Afghan businessman Jaanbaz Khan and had recently moved back to live with him in Paktika province, reportedly to run a health clinic there.<\/p>\n<p><em>Text and image reposted from Aljazeera.com<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<iframe id=\"basic_facebook_social_plugins_likebutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Ffd.artistsafety.net%2F2013%2F09%2Findian-author-shot-dead-in-afghanistan%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=&amp;action=recommend&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:px; height:25px\"><\/iframe><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unidentified gunmen have shot dead an Indian author in the eastern Afghan province of Paktika, police say. Sushmita Banerjee, the writer of a popular book about her dramatic escape from the Taliban in the 1990s, was shot dead on Wednesday night, police announced on Thursday. &#8220;We found her bullet-riddled body near [a religious school] on [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,196],"tags":[249,248,252,250,251],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}