Recently Parwana, a 9 years old was sold in marriage to an old man for 200,000AFG (2000 US dollars).

Parwana’s father said he was forced to sell his daughter to feed his family which consists of 8 people. He said he was left with no other choice but to sell his daughter as the unemployment rate has gone up after the Taliban takeover.

Parwana who desired to go to school and become a teacher was forced to let go of her dreams due to poverty and desperate situation.

Child marriage is nothing new in the poor rural parts of Afghanistan but the human rights activists are reporting increasing cases because of the economic and humanitarian crisis engulfing the country.

Who do we blame for such devastating decision or actions? The parents? Taliban? Corrupt Afghan officials who fled the country leaving behind the people in desperate situations or all of them?