It may have been an honor killing. Shaima Rezayee update, from the Christian Science Monitor, with thanks to EPG:
Staff at a controversial TV station in Kabul are taking extra security precautions in the wake of a killing last Wednesday of a former colleague who was shot dead in her Kabul home.
Shaima Rezayee had worked for Tolo TV before being dismissed two months ago amid complaints by conservatives over her on-air demeanor. In a departure from the public personae of many Afghan women, Ms. Rezayee adopted Western-style dress and chatted with male counterparts as a veejay for a music-video program named “Hop.”
A council of religious scholars criticized Tolo and other broadcasters this spring for airing “programs opposed to Islam and national values.”
Police are still investigating Rezayee’s death, but they have told reporters that the young woman’s brothers may have been involved. In Afghanistan and other conservative societies, women may face violence at the hands of male relatives over perceived affronts to family “honor.”