Sitara Achakzai

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{{Short description|Afghan women's rights activist}}

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Sitara Achakzai (also transliterated Achaksai، Pashto: ستاره اچکزۍ) (1956/1957 – 12 April 2009) was a leading Afghan women's rights activist and a member of the regional parliament in Kandahar. She was assassinated by the Taliban.{{cite web |url=http://news.indiainfo.com/article/0904131354_taliban_claims_responsibility_killing_female_politician_kandahar/337451.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=26 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617014555/http://news.indiainfo.com/article/0904131354_taliban_claims_responsibility_killing_female_politician_kandahar/337451.html |archive-date=17 June 2011 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/taliban-claims-responsibility-for-killing-female-politician-in-kandahar_100178904.html|title=Taliban claims responsibility for killing female politician in Kandahar|access-date=8 May 2017|archive-date=15 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171115015528/http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/taliban-claims-responsibility-for-killing-female-politician-in-kandahar_100178904.html|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.newspostonline.com/world-news/taliban-claims-responsibility-for-killing-female-politician-in-kandahar-2009041349868|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120726031145/http://www.newspostonline.com/world-news/taliban-claims-responsibility-for-killing-female-politician-in-kandahar-2009041349868|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 July 2012|title=Options d'achat – NewsPostOnline.com|website=www.newspostonline.com|access-date=8 May 2017}}

Achakzai is a name shared by one of the sub-tribes of Durrani clan, part of the Pashtun people, one of the largest

ethnic groups of Afghanistan. She held dual citizenship of Afghanistan and Germany,[http://www.epo.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4884 Statement of Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul (German Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development) (in German)]

and was well known in Canada as some of her extended family live in the Toronto area.{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090414.AFGHANFAMILY14ART2245/TPStory/National|title=report of the Globe and Mail|access-date=8 May 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20090417073910/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090414.AFGHANFAMILY14ART2245/TPStory/National|archive-date=17 April 2009}}