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Taliban to commit to a ceasefire, including the targeted killings of Afghan citizens, as a condition of American withdrawal. She also requested the US properly investigate allegations of abuse levied at American soldiers during the
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In 2021, Akbar was named as a laureate of the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law in recognition for her work defending human rights in
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in 1987, the daughter of the leftist politician and writer Ismail Akbar, who had been a member of the
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