'Here is your bride... please don't beat her': As Taliban recognises child marriage, Afghans 'marry

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'Here is your bride... please don't beat her': As Taliban recognises child marriage, Afghans 'marry off' girls and BABIES - and can only hope they are not raped before they even hit puberty

Daily Mail
By ELIANA SILVER
23 May 2026



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.

Parwana is one of the millions of girls in poverty-stricken Afghanistan forced into under-age marriage, where desperate families have resorted to selling even their newborn babies just to survive.

In late 2021, UN children's agency Unicef said there were credible reports of families offering daughters as young as 20 days old for future marriage in return for a dowry.

And in a practice outlawed by most governments around the world, the Taliban last week formally recognised child marriage under a new law that sets out specific rules governing ‘virgin girls’.

The law states that a marriage arranged with a child is legally valid provided the spouse is socially compatible and the dowry is appropriate, and that the child may later seek annulment after reaching puberty, but only through a court order.

The document also adds that the silence of a 'virgin girl' is interpreted as consent to marriage, whereas the same silence from a male or previously married woman is not.

And in Afghanistan, where women and girls are unlikely to speak out for fear of punishment, the new legislation risks leaving many girls trapped.

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Biden/Austin/Blinken did this. The Taliban are our friends!! They will be our new allies!!

[Cyber Liberty]

Something I've always wondered...do any little boys marry older women in Islam-land, or are all child marriages involving old men with little girls?