Banned from education, ‘idle’ Afghan girls are married off

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by Jay Deshmukh and Aysha Safi Agence France Presse Kandahar, Afghanistan (AFP) — Thirteen-year-old Zainab should have been shopping for a new school uniform this autumn but, with no prospect of girls’ schools reopening in Afghanistan, she was instead forced to pick out a wedding dress. Since the Taliban seized power in Kabul and banned teenage girls from education, many have been married off — often to much older men of their father’s choice. “I […]