The Taliban have shot dead a pregnant woman police officer in Ghor province on Sunday as it issued orders for the women attending private Afghan universities to wear an abaya robe and niqab.

Though the Taliban claimed its fighter were not involved in the killing of Banu Negar, the police officer who was posted in the prison, her family in Firozkoh, the capital of central Ghor province, claimed to the contrary.

According to BBC, details of the incident are still sketchy as many in Firozkoh fear retribution if they speak out. But three sources have told the BBC that the Taliban beat and shot dead Negar in front of her husband and children on Saturday.

Relatives supplied graphic images showing blood spattered on a wall in the corner of a room and a body, the face heavily disfigured, the report added.

The family says Negar, who worked at the local prison, was eight months pregnant.

Three gunmen arrived at the house on Saturday and searched it before tying members of the family up, relatives say.

In its continuing misogynistic ways, the Taliban have ordered that the classes in colleges and universities must be segregated by sex — or at least divided by a curtain.

Though the Taliban is yet to form a government, its “Education authority” has issued a long order about how the private universities that have mushroomed across Afghanistan since the group was in power in 2001, should conduct the classes in their reign.

It asked the Universities to ensure that only women teachers must take the classes of the same sex. However, if that was not possible then “old men of good character” could fill in.

After claiming they were not against women and they were free to work and study in Afghanistan, apparently to play to the galleries of the world, the Taliban are back to their misogynistic ways.

First they made it clear that no woman will be inducted into the government as and when it is formed.

Unable to handle a group of women protesting against the Taliban rule in Kabul last week, its fighters opened fire killing at least 70 persons including women.

The Taliban told the BBC they had no involvement in Negar's death and are investigating the incident. Taliban’s spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid said: "We are aware of the incident and I am confirming that the Taliban have not killed her, our investigation is ongoing."