Under the new Taliban government, Afghan women say they have had to flee or marry family friends to avoid being forcibly married off. “We’re like a trophy for them.”
, a businessman who had become an official in Afghanistan’s new government turned up at Ayesha’s home. He demanded the family hand over Ayesha and her four sisters to repay what he said was a $250,000 debt owed by her brother.
The women would be married to the man and his sons, he said. “If you don’t have money, you have sisters,” the man told them, according to Ayesha, who asked to be identified only by her first name.
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