Indian diarist Sushmita Banerjee shot dead in Afghanistan (USA News)

An Indian lady, who composed a ubiquitous journal about her departure from the Taliban, has been shot dead in Afghanistan by suspected activists, police say.

Sushmita Banerjee, who was wedded to an Afghan businessperson, was executed outside her home in Paktika area.

The book about her sensational break in 1995 turned into a success in India and was made into a Bollywood film in 2003.

Ms Banerjee had as of late moved over to Afghanistan to live with her spouse.

A senior police official told the BBC's Jafar Haand that Ms Banerjee, who was otherwise called Sayed Kamala, was filling in as a health laborer in the region and had been shooting the lives of neighborhood ladies as a major aspect of her work.

Police said Taliban activists touched base at her home in the common capital, Kharana, tied up her spouse and different parts of the family, took Ms Banerjee out and shot her. They dumped her physique close to a religious school, police included.

The Taliban have told the BBC they didn't do the ambush on Ms Banerjee.

'Taliban session'

Ms Banerjee, 49, came to be well-known in India for her journal, A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife, which described her existence in Afghanistan with her spouse Jaanbaz Khan and her departure.

She was the subject of the 2003 Bollywood film, Escape From Taliban.

Featuring performer Manisha Koirala, the film depicted itself as a "story of a lady who dares [the] Taliban".

Ms Banerjee additionally recounted to her story in an article she composed for Outlook magazine in 1998. She headed off to Afghanistan in 1989 in the wake of wedding Mr Khan, whom she met in Calcutta.

She thought of that "life was middle of the road until the Taliban crackdown in 1993" when the activists requested her to close a dispensary she was running from her house and "marked me a lady of poor ethics".

She kept in touch with that she escaped "at some point in promptly 1994", yet her brothers by marriage followed her down in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, where she had touched base to look for help from the Indian consulate. They took her once more to Afghanistan.

"They guaranteed to send me once more to India. At the same time they didn't keep their guarantee. Rather, they held me under house capture and marked me an unethical lady. The Taliban debilitated to show me a lesson. I knew I needed to getaway," she composed.

It was soon after that, she thought of, that she tried to break from her spouse's home, three hours from the capital, Kabul.

"One night, I made a tunnel through the mud dividers of the house and fled. Near Kabul, I was captured. A 15-part gathering of the Taliban grilled me. A large portion of them said that since I had fled my spouse's home, I ought to be executed. Then again, I was fit to influence them that since I was an Indian, I had each right to about-face to my nation," Ms Banerjee composed.

"The investigation proceeded as the night progressed. The following morning, I was taken to the Indian international safe haven from where I was given a sheltered entry. Back in Calcutta, I was re-united with my spouse. I don't suppose he can ever retreat to his gang."