occupation article_title death_date religion
fmr ministry in laghman province , afghanistan . head of afghanistan 's women 's affairs hanifa safi
 13 july 2012 islam
hanifa safi

hanifa safi -lrb- died 13 july 2012 -rrb- was the regional head of the women 's affairs ministry for laghman province , afghanistan , since 2008 .
she worked on cases concerning violence against women , supporting the women to overcome the violence .
on july 13 , hanifa safi was killed by a bomb attached to her car , also wounding her husband and her daughter , while driving through laghman 's capital mehtar lam .
mehtar lam lies roughly 150 km -lrb- 93 miles -rrb- north-east of kabul .
the assassination was widely condemned including by the united nations .
in 2006 , in a similar case , the regional head for women 's affairs in kandahar province was gunned down by the taliban .
