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Daughters for sale: Afghans are growing desperate

Afghans are growing desperate

27 November 2021

9:00 AM

27 November 2021

9:00 AM

Shukria Abdul Wahid has nine children, two boys and seven girls. All they had to eat yesterday, she says, were two small pieces of stale flatbread — for the whole family. She and her husband went without. They couldn’t even have tea to quieten their own hunger pangs. The gas bottle used to boil water ran out long ago and there is no money for another one.

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