Women in Afghanistan "fighting a loosing battle" - absolutely tragic.
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By Flora DruryBBC News
Sahba Barakzai, her family and seven-month-old husky Aseman, tried to get out into the mountains near their home in western Afghanistan every Friday.
But last Friday, the hike turned to tragedy after an unidentified group of men approached the family and shot Sahba's beloved puppy dead.
The attackers told her a woman could not own a dog.
About two hours into the hike, a man looking like a shepherd approached the group and shot at Aseman.
"I shouted and ran towards Aseman and requested the man not to fire," Sahba told Afghan news agency Khaama. "The gunman did not care, and shot four bullets in Aseman's chest."
The shots were fatal: sobbing, Sahba took Aseman in her arms and began to run towards the car.
But then the gunman, who had been joined by several other men, fired another shot, and demanded she put the dog down and leave her body with them. As a woman, he told Sahba, she had no right to keep a dog.
The family had no choice but to leave Aseman with the men, and flee. They don't know who the men were, or why they were targeted. Reporting it to the police, Sahba said, would be pointless.
"I knew nothing will happen," she told Khaama. "Dozens of human beings are killed every day in the country and no one feels responsibility.
