Taliban Tamer

Lt.-Col. Kakar – daughter of a cop, sister to five cops – was the first female police detective and highest-ranking policewoman in southern Afghanistan. Against all odds, she had risen to the top of the law enforcement hierarchy in Kandahar city, unsoiled by the corruption that had caused eight of her police chiefs to be fired.

"People have small, narrow minds," she said. "It will take a long time for many people to accept (females) in this position. But I want to show other women that it can be done, even here in Kandahar."