Malalai Kakar (Pashto: ملالۍ کاکړ; 1967 – 28 September 2008) was the most high-profile policewoman in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2001–2021) during its existence.

Policewomen played an essential role in the aftermath of the American and allied invasion and overthrow of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

In December 2009, Colonel Shafiqa Quraisha, the head of the Gender Issues Unit of the Afghan police, described a raid in which insurgents had collected women into a room where weapons were hidden.

[4] Hanifa Safi and Najia Sediqi, heads of women affairs in Laghman Province, were assassinated in 2012.

[5] On Thursday 4 July 2013, Islam Bibi, a 37-year-old mother of three and the leading female police officer in Helmand Province, was killed on her way to work.