<p>India will take up with Kabul the killing of Indian author Sushmita Banerjee by suspected Taliban militants in Afghanistan, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajeev Shukla said Friday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"It is condemnable. The external affairs ministry is pursuing the matter and will take it up with the Afghanistan government," Shukla told the Rajya Sabha.<br /><br />The killing of 49-year-old Banerjee Thursday was raised in the upper house by Trinamool Congress member Kunal Kumar Ghosh.<br /><br />The house unanimously condemned the killing.<br /><br />Communist Party of India's D. Raja said: "It is a brutal killing. Earlier, the Indian embassy in Afghanistan was attacked. The government should take notice of issues in (that) country."<br /><br />Jaya Bachchan of the Samajwadi Party said the government had failed to react to the murder.<br /><br />"I condemn the killing and the government must respond, especially the external affairs ministry," she said.<br /><br />Married to an Afghan businessman, Banerjee was killed outside her home in the southeastern province of Paktika.<br /><br />Her memoir, "A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife", recounted her life in Afghanistan with her husband Jaanbaz Khan and her escape from Taliban custody.<br /></p>
<p>India will take up with Kabul the killing of Indian author Sushmita Banerjee by suspected Taliban militants in Afghanistan, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajeev Shukla said Friday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"It is condemnable. The external affairs ministry is pursuing the matter and will take it up with the Afghanistan government," Shukla told the Rajya Sabha.<br /><br />The killing of 49-year-old Banerjee Thursday was raised in the upper house by Trinamool Congress member Kunal Kumar Ghosh.<br /><br />The house unanimously condemned the killing.<br /><br />Communist Party of India's D. Raja said: "It is a brutal killing. Earlier, the Indian embassy in Afghanistan was attacked. The government should take notice of issues in (that) country."<br /><br />Jaya Bachchan of the Samajwadi Party said the government had failed to react to the murder.<br /><br />"I condemn the killing and the government must respond, especially the external affairs ministry," she said.<br /><br />Married to an Afghan businessman, Banerjee was killed outside her home in the southeastern province of Paktika.<br /><br />Her memoir, "A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife", recounted her life in Afghanistan with her husband Jaanbaz Khan and her escape from Taliban custody.<br /></p>