Afghan Girl Who Shot Taliban Men With Gun Says She Is 'Ready To Fight Them Again'

News of an Afghan girl¡¯s valor who killed two members of Taliban by shooting them and injured others has been all over the media recently.

According to AFP, the Taliban men were searching for her father who was the village chief and loyal to the government, according to local police head Habiburahman Malekzada. The militants killed her parents. Now she has told AFP that she would kill other insurgents again if they try to attack her and if she had to.

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15-year-old Qamar Gul killed the militants when they stormed her home in in a remote village in the central province of Ghor.

"I no longer fear them and I'm ready to fight them again," Gul told AFP while talking on phone from a relative¡¯s home.

A picture of Gul posing with a gun went viral online. Many have praised her actions and her calling for her to be safely taken out of the war torn country.

Recounting the events she said, ¡°My mother ran to stop them but by then they had already broken the door. They took my father and mother outside and shot them several times. I was terrified".

But moments later she picked up the gun at home. "I picked up the gun we had at home, went to the door and shot them," said Gul, who was taught by her father how to fire an AK-47 assault rifle. Her brother helped when one of the insurgents tried to return fire.

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"My brother took the gun from me and hit (shot) him. The fighter ran away injured, only to return later," she said.

When several villagers and pro-government militiamen arrived the men eventually fled following a fire fight.

The New York Times reported that the killings at Gul's home also involved a family feud -- and one of the attackers was Gul's own husband. He was reportedly seeking her "forcible return" after a falling-out with her family.

"I am proud I killed my parents' murderers. I killed them because they killed my parents, and also because I knew they would come for me and my little brother,¡± she said.

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President Ashraf Ghani also praised Gul for "defending her family against a ruthless enemy", his spokesman Sediq Sediqqi told AFP.

However, hundreds of people are concerned about her safety and are calling for her to be sent out of Afghanistan.

'I demand that the president help transfer her to a safe place as her and her family's security is at risk,' women's rights activist and former lawmaker Fawzia Koofi wrote on Facebook.

We hope her protection is taken seriously by the government.

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