Forced marriage

Security forces have thwarted a forced marriage and arrested three individuals in the Gurbaz district of southeastern Khost province.

In a quiet corner of Shiberghan, the capital of northern Jawzjan province, 20-year-old Sabera reflects on her life altered by forced marriage.

Kharaman, a 42-year-old mother in western Ghor province, who was forced by poverty to marry off her 10-year-old daughter, says that at nightwhen she goes to sleep, she wishes her daughter was in her arms.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Shamsia, 35, one of the victims of forced marriages, is disabled on both legs going through painful life since her miseries started by

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Vice and Virtue (MoVV) has prevented the forced marriage of a 12-year-old girl to 50-year-old man . . .

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): The appellate court in eastern Nangarhar province has sentenced a man to 17 years in prison for forcibly marrying two sisters at .

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): In Helmand an underage girl who was forced into marriage and now divorced from her husband is living in abject poverty along with