Parwana Malik was just nine years old when her father sold her as a bride to a man in his 50s, desperate to find enough money to feed his family.
As tears streamed down his face, Abdul Malik pleaded with the groom to show mercy to his little girl.
‘This is your bride. Please take care of her. You are responsible now, please don’t beat her,’ he said.
As dawn breaks, hundreds of men gather at a dusty square in Chaghcharan, the capital of Ghor province in Afghanistan.
They line the roadside with weary faces, hoping someone will come along offering any work. It will determine whether their families eat that day.
The likelihood of success, however, is low.
Juma Khan, 45, has found just three days of work in the past six weeks that paid between 150 to 200 Afghani ($2.35-$3.13; £1.76-£2.34) per day.
This is the Glory of Islam.
The Taliban has formally recognised child marriages under a sweeping new family law regulation that sets out rules for marriages involving minors and establishes specific guidelines governing ‘virgin girls’.
The 31-page article regulation called ‘Principles of Separation Between Spouses’ outlines rules governing the dissolution of marriages under an endless list of religious and legal conditions.
These include child marriage, breastfeeding relations, forced separation, missing husbands, apostasy and accusations of adultery.
The federal government officially broke ground Monday in Ottawa on a national memorial to the sacrifice of Canadians during more than a dozen years of war in Afghanistan.
The monument, which has a controversial design history, will be located on LeBreton Flats in the national capital, near the Canadian War Museum.
It is intended to recognize the contributions of those who served in Afghanistan and those who supported them.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has confirmed that the Trump administration is reassessing hundreds of thousands of aliens allowed in willy-nilly by the Biden administration with little to no vetting.
Pakistan’s defence minister has said the country is in “open war” with Afghanistan, after Islamabad launched airstrikes on Kabul as part of a wave of attacks across the country.
“Our patience has now run out,” said Khawaja Muhammad Asif following the attacks.
The strikes came after the Afghan Taliban announced a major offensive against Pakistani military posts near the border on Thursday night.
The latest attacks follow months of clashes between the two neighbouring nations, despite agreeing to a fragile ceasefire in October.
I wish them a long and bloody conflict.
Pakistan VS Afghanistan.
Both sides chant "Allahu Akbar".
Both sides praise Allah for killing the other side.Fewer evil people in this world.
Good luck to both sides. pic.twitter.com/hrLFjaC0lX— Eli Afriat 🇮🇱 (@EliAfriatISR) February 26, 2026
There is an unchangeable “truth” that goes with a Canadian flag draped over a Canadian soldier’s casket and hundreds of patriots standing on a bridge saluting that can’t be erased no matter how powerful the person doing the erasing may be.
Trump was definitely out of line, Canada’s troops were exemplary.
Afghanistan is the most misogynistic nation on Earth. Now those attitudes have been brought to Britain.
What role are Afghan nationals playing in the recent spate of sexual offences carried out by illegal male migrants? This question is becoming more urgent than ever, with polling showing that most Britons now believe that the small-boats crisis poses a serious threat to the safety of women and girls.
An Afghan national has been charged with the first-degree murder of his wife after he allegedly committed an honor killing in Washington state over the belief she was having an affair, local media reported, citing the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.
Sayed Sadat, 37, of Auburn, called police to his home on the morning of November 23, where he was said to have confessed to killing 43-year-old Geety Sadat.
On Friday President Donald Trump announced his administration would pause asylum processes and stop issuing visas to Afghans in response to the shooting of two National Guardsmen, one of whom later died. It was an Afghan national, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, admitted into the United States through a Biden-era program, who allegedly shot and killed Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and critically injured Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe.
Of course, the propaganda press insisted this was an isolated tragedy and certainly not evidence of a failed system.
Afghan national admitted via Operation Allies Welcome charged with making terroristic threat, DHS says
An Afghan national was arrested this week after posting a video of himself on TikTok indicating he was building a bomb with an intended target of the Fort Worth area in Texas, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Fox News.
Court records show that Mohammad Dawood Alokozay was charged at the state level with making a terroristic threat.
The latest brutal act of Afghan refugee terrorism claimed the lives of two brave members of the National Guard in D.C.. Since their arrival in the United States, Afghan ‘refugees’ have been involved in violent attacks, in assorted crimes, and in sexual assaults on women and girls.
The attack by Rahmanullah Lakanwal took place a mere week after another Afghan, Abdullah Haji Zada, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in the Election Day plot.
In a decade-long covert operation, the U.S. spy agency dropped modified poppy seeds in an attempt to degrade the potency of Afghanistan’s billion-dollar opium crop.
In 20 years of grinding war in Afghanistan, the United States dropped a multitude of weapons from the skies: Millions of tons of ordnance. Hellfire missiles launched from Predator drones. Even the “Mother of All Bombs,” the most powerful nonnuclear bomb in existence. And, amid the more conventional projectiles, tiny poppy seeds. By the billions.
On and off for over a decade, the Central Intelligence Agency conducted an audacious highly classified program to covertly manipulate Afghanistan’s lucrative poppy crop, blanketing Afghan farmers’ fields with specially modified seeds that germinated plants containing almost none of the chemicals that are refined into heroin, The Washington Post has learned.
The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have ordered female patients, caretakers and staff to wear a burka – a full Islamic veil – to enter public health facilities in the western city of Herat, medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says.
MSF said the restrictions came into effect from 5 November.
“These restrictions further impede women’s lives and limit women’s access to health care,” Sarah Chateau, the agency’s programme manager in Afghanistan, told the BBC. She said even those “in need of urgent medical care” had been affected.
The country has become an unlikely destination for travel influencers — including women. But some have been accused of whitewashing the oppressive regime
Walking through central Kabul one afternoon, Julie Bold was stopped by the Taliban morality police. Her male friend, who she had met at the Afghan border with Tajikistan, was a few steps behind. Not realising Bond was from Wales, and a tourist, the Taliban surrounded her and began shouting at her for not wearing a facemask. When her friend caught up, the police realised she was a tourist and relented. “I can’t imagine how bad it would have been if I were a local woman,” Bold said.
Morons.
