Women and Girls in Afghanistan

     "As time advances, educated Afghani children have to take up cudgels  traditional practices of bartering girls. Only then the future of Afghani girls can be thought to be safe."

     A female, the most sublime creation of God, is merely an item of barter in Afghanistan. Although, the Taliban times has ended, but the side effects are still there. Debts are paid off, family feuds solved, murder accusation charges restrained, thanks to the daughters of the home who are exchanged for money and that takes tension from their home.

     The brutal Taliban regime was an era of women harassment in which the women were forced to be only a decorative item of their households and never let to leave the house. Years after the brutal masters were thrown out, women in Afghanistan continue to suffer, now at the hand of their family. Unable to see their family through pain, few of the girls of the house offer to sacrifice their much-cherished freedom for the sake of rest of the members of the family. While others are forced into marriages against their wishes, in which they have to suffer, some are married to a person equivalent to the age of their father or in some cases the groom is their grandfather’s age. It Sucks!!!

     The poor and battered Afghanis have no option to pay off their long drawn debts, but to lend their girls in exchange to evade away their overdue amounts.

     It is really sad, and emotional that even in this age, when women rights are very high and respected, females are traded off, forced into brothals, and married against their wish to live a life wiping their tears because of harassment at the hands of their in laws. Not only this, violence against the fair sex is still there, widespread in which they are beaten up to live a life of seclusion from the society. However, the lucky ones are those whose families have no debts to pay off or no disputes to settle. Only among the poor Afghani families, girls can dream to step out of their homes and make a life of their own and not forced into marriages.

     Times can be expected to change, with the women rights activities gaining in importance, females themselves realizing and getting their freedom, and getting involved in activities from household chores to earning their livelihood that has helped in shedding the long drawn conservative outlook of traditionalist

...You may not even care about this happening; (not just in Afghanistan but in all the middle east countries). but put you'r self in a females shoes and just take a minute to think about what you would do in such possition!

An afghan women burnned