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Tortured Afghan Child Bride Slowly Recovering
January 12, 2012

Afghan child bride Sahar Gul, 15, lies in a bed as she recovers at the Wazir Akbar Khan hospital in Kabul on Wednesday. (AFP Photo) Afghan child bride Sahar Gul, 15, lies in a bed as she recovers at the Wazir Akbar Khan hospital in Kabul on Wednesday. (AFP Photo)
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nonredneck
12:30am Jan 16, 2012

Val, got ur point. I know u didn't mean the bashing, it was a different point I made, sorry I didn't make the separation clearly. In my opinion about the site though I'm not so sure about the site's neutrality. Most important reason for me is because I don't read arabic, so I can't know for sure. And my idea of neutrality would contain both pros & cons view, both side of the coin on an issue, I'm sure some muslims scholars can argue back the points. But it's not which sides I want believe because it's not the coin I want to touch, so whichever side doesn't matter.

nonredneck
12:27am Jan 16, 2012

Irrational, lunatic, hot air balloon, bollocks, silly, touchy, & the latest one neo-liberal. Printing more bumpersticker for me DD? Your wisdom on toyota philosophy shows, labelling others as you see fit.

nonredneck
4:05pm Jan 14, 2012

enakajah: great pleasure to have a true insider of the matter to speak to us. U're right, it's of no use, the extremists will only be extreme with their own view. The ppl wherever they'r do need inspiration, not dismissing, I do try to inject positive views & optimism whenever I talk to others whether or not they'll be influenced it's up to personal choice.

DrDez
7:01am Jan 14, 2012

NRN

For all your neo liberal words you are extremely 'touchy' and often respond with misplaced 'attacks'


enakajah
11:01pm Jan 13, 2012

NRN I am sorry I was not so clear. I should have said that ONE should not point the finger... no you personally. And what I was trying to say is that trying to identify any group and asking them or pushing them to do what you are asking ( I agree of course whole heartedly with your idea) is pointless. It will not work.

So rather than take on the world or a part of it do what you do very well. Use positive thought your talent for opening others eyes one at a time. Small steps. Talk to your friends and convince them to talk to theirs. Teach your children. This is a very slow process.

Please believe me I know first hand. It is exactly this that I am doing in Afghanistan right now. A huge program for the advocacy for Gender equality. Here the Mullahs, Imams, government and local authorities are coming out and admitting it is wrong and are trying to change. But it takes time. Do what you can in your own way. Every little counts.


Kabul. The Afghan child bride who was tortured in an attempt to force her into prostitution is slowly recovering but is still hardly able to speak, a nurse said during a visit to the girl’s bedside Thursday.

Sahar Gul, 15, who was burned and beaten and had her fingernails pulled out was found last month in the basement of her husband’s house in northeastern Baghlan province, where she had been locked in a toilet for six months.

“Since the past few days, Gul can walk very slowly, she can eat and talk in a frail voice,” said nurse Latifa Mirzad at the Wazir Akbar Khan hospital, as the bruised and battered girl looked on silently.

“She is hardly able to speak of her ordeal but sometimes she says in a weak voice ‘my father in-law and mother-in law have beaten me.’ ”

Gul’s case was taken directly to President Hamid Karzai by a delegation from the Afghan Women’s Network on Wednesday.

“The president assured his full support to strictly punish the perpetrators of the crime against Sahar Gul so that nobody can commit such a crime in the future,” said the network’s Lema Anwari.

Karzai pledged in a statement after the delegation’s visit to take action against the “cowardly” perpetrators of violence against women.

The president said that he always took measures as soon as he heard about cases of violence against women, and would continue to take the issue seriously so that the culprits were brought to justice.

According to figures in an Oxfam report in October, 87 percent of Afghan women report having experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence or forced marriage.

The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission logged 1,026 cases of violence against women in the second quarter of 2011 compared with 2,700 cases for the whole of 2010.

Agence France-Presse