A prominent women’s rights campaigner has survived a suicide bomb attack on her car in Kabul.<br /><br />However police say three civilian bystanders were killed, and more than ten people were wounded.<br /><br />Shukria Barakzai has claimed she ran a secret school for girls during the Taliban’s five-year rule.<br /><br />She is now a member of the Afghan parliament, a close ally of new President Ashraf Ghani and a member of his team appointed to help choose a new cabinet.<br /><br />The president has condemned the attack.<br /><br />Speaking from hospital, Barakzai said she survived because of her people’s prayers.<br /><br />The bombing was the latest to target members of the US-backed Afghan government.<br /><br />It is fighting a fierce onslaught by the Islamist Taliban movement as most foreign troops prepare to leave the country by the end of the year.
