Afghan women are selling their kidneys

All of the kids being sold are mainly for forced marriages. The children stay with the family until they reach puberty then older men marry them having paid the dowry years earlier. Barbaric **** practice. Just read one account prompted by your post from a woman whom had to sell her kidney to pay for medical bills for her sons and husband who was very ill.

Op remember it's not NATOs fault ✌️

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If anyone really expected the taliban to bring peace or prosperity Wtf? Like electing Hitler to the committee for human rights? They use violence against women protestors they want women to stay at home 90 per cent of the time, the stop women young girls from going to school, they break or destroy all musical television they haven't made the burqa mandatory probably cos they are trying to negotiate with the west to get money financial aid 99 per cent of bank assets are frozen right now in all country's inflation in rising oil gas prices are rising factory's are closing because of energy problems lack of supply to cpus chips electronic items

They are trying to send the country back to the 17th century in terms of human rights rights for women by basically saying go home the only place for a woman is the kitchen

Imagine if 90 per cent of women decided 2moro ill stay and home read the bible all day

Most shops cafes restaurants would close or offer restricted menus our hospitals would probably close due to lack of staff nurses female medical workers the taliban know about violence threatening people getting payments from drug dealers to let em transport drugs across borders. Women are the engine of large parts of the economy retail and health care childcare and women are not allowed by the taliban to travel alone without a male escort

Expecting the taliban to manage a modern economy is like asking drug addicts to run our railway system or asking 100 random taxi drivers to maintain a nuclear power station they have neither the expertise or the experience to run a country things like water supply's electrical networks need constant maintenance and upgrades it's hard to do this when most middle class people are giving up working cos they don't get paid the banks are closed most of the time even the taliban find it hard to get paid i don't see any sign of financial sanctions being lifted by the USA the taliban are like Cuba but at least Cuba had a well organised economy workers get paid thru can trade with some country's

this is like an experiment how long can a country go with no money coming in limited food aid and government workers not working but its serious cos people are struggling to buy food there has to be someone like Obama who can act as a honest broker and make a deal to improve the situation by talking to both sides taliban the EU and also the us givernment

I seen it years ago in National Geographic (I think), it was happening in India.

Reminded me of this photo of a conference in Saudi on the subject of “Women in Society” and ne’er a woman present 😂

Haven't seen this on Irish media, still they would prefer to moan on about how Ireland is such a hellhole for women to live in.

I've lived in Afghanistan and in my experience, I have found Afghans to be a fine friendly hospitable people, with a great sense of humor. But if you wanted a modern time machine, you would find it in Afghanistan. While it has modernized incredibly under the US, once you leave the cities, and travel in the countryside and mountains, life continues as it has for century's. You have the clan system in operation, where one clan controls a particular region, and ( unfortunately ) it has regions which produces high quality drugs, that are in much demand world wide, generating wealth which only benefit's the cartel 's and war lords. The opposite side of the coin is that it has been plagued throughout its history with Famines ( like the present one ) which in the last 20 years, were well managed, and the death toll reduced. Match this with poor education possibilities, and you have a system and conditions where the worst possible people take control. And now is the worst case scenario, with the Taliban using a ruthless version of Islam to control people, it will quickly revert to what it was before the US came. The only real solution to Afghanistan's problems will have to come from Afghans themselves, and only time and education ( especially education) will do that.

Problem is if the Taliban again clamp down on the availability of education.

Well the die is cast now, so its wait and see how it will play out this time with the Taliban. Mineral wise, Afghanistan is incredibly wealthy, and the Chinese are well established there, but with contracts written by the previous administration, so that could go either way, If the Taliban ( isisK ) decide to go all out support of their Muslim Brothers, the Uyghurs' in China, that could be a big problem for the Chinese. But, money talks all languages. So its wait and see.

Would be interesting all right...its not for nothing that its known as the Grave Yard of Empires. A lot of the reason that Afghanistan is in its present ( and past state ) is that it's a patchwork quilt of different clans, and the failure to unite themselves for a single course of action has always been their own worst enemy. The main exemption to this would be a war against the invaders, any invaders. Differences will be forgotten ( or at last postponed ) and they will unite against the common enemy, as they have always done. So will China be different? Time will tell....

Yes, and if they confine their interests to that, it should work. Biggest mistake they could make would be to try to control all or even large parts of Afghanistan, given recent history. However, the Taliban now have a new enemy, isis K who are fast becoming a thorn in the Taliban's side. They claim ( as usual ) that the Taliban are not real Muslims, and are not the real leaders of Afghanistan. Now I can't see them over throwing the Taliban, but they will still be very vocal with their propaganda, IE; " Real Muslims would not be consorting with the Chinese, who are killing thousands of their Muslim Brothers. etc. And that will resonate with many Afghans, especially the ones who are not benefitting from the Chinese presence. The Chinese were amongst the first to hold talks with the Taliban after they arrived, and one of their demands / requests was that they ( Taliban) would not make any problems with them over the Uyghurs. So early days yet.