As Afghanistan, which is governed by the Taliban, faces an economic crisis, a prohibited practice of forcing young children into marriage has resurfaced in several regions of the nation. Many fled Afghan families facing hardship and malnutrition have been obliged to make the distasteful decision of marrying off their merely teen children in return for money as well as food to secure their life in past months. According to CNN, one such heartbreaking incident is 9-year-old Parwana Malik, whose parents sold her to 55-year Qorban the previous month.  

Parwana's family of eight was just scraping by at a camp for temporarily displaced persons in the war-torn country's Badghis district, where employment was few and foreign help had dried up after the Taliban took power. Abdul Malik, Parwana's father, disclosed to CNN that he had previously sold his 12-year-old daughter a few months earlier. Now he's been pushed to sell his second daughter "in order to keep remaining family ones alive," a move that has left him "torn" with remorse, humiliation, and fear.

The future of a large number of Afghan females is unknown. With the Taliban forbidding women from secondary school and hardship on the rise, a growing number of young females are being forced into marriage.

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Kailas Ashwin Sathish

02/11/2021 02:49 PM