She was sold to a stranger so her family could eat as Afghanistan crumbles

CNN

By Anna Coren, Jessie Yeung and Abdul Basir Bina
Picture Courtesy: CNN
Picture Courtesy: CNN

Parwana Malik, a 9-year-old girl with dark eyes and rosy cheeks, giggles with her friends as they play jump rope in a dusty clearing.

But Parwana's laughter disappears as she returns home, a small hut with dirt walls, where she's reminded of her fate: she's being sold to a stranger as a child bride.

The man who wants to buy Parwana says he's 55, but to her, he's "an old man" with white eyebrows and a thick white beard, she told CNN on October 22. She worries he will beat her and force her to work in his house.

Publish : 2021-11-02 15:51:00

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