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Taliban Fighter Forces 13-Year-Old Girl into Marriage Using Threats of Violence @HashteSubhDaily https://t.co/LileNjoMQE pic.twitter.com/sDUQVaueaf
— Hasht E Subh English (@8AM_Media) August 5, 2023
A disturbing incident has emerged from Faryab province, where a Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...fighter coerced a 13-year-old girl into a marriage with his own brother-in-law, using the ominous threat of a firearm.
Captured on video and brought to light by Hasht-e Subh on Saturday, August 5th, exposes a sinister act committed by a Taliban member in the Dawlat-Abad district of Faryab province. This fighter, through the use of weaponized intimidation, orchestrated a forced marriage between the maiden of tender years and his brother-in-law.
When women raised their voices in protest against this grave violation of human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
, they faced life-threatening ultimatums from the armed forces aligned with the Taliban.
The mother of the victimized maiden of tender years pleads with the Taliban’s officials to take immediate action against such arbitrary and forceful actions perpetrated by their ranks.
While the Taliban officials in Faryab have maintained conspicuous silence on the matter, an unnamed local Taliban official did acknowledge, "We are informed about this incident."
It is essential to note that this incident is not an isolated occurrence. Similar abhorrent acts have previously surfaced, as seen in the recent event where a Taliban governor in Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for
Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
province arranged the marriage of an underage girl under the pretext of monetary compensation.
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