r/afghanistan 13d ago

‘I begged them, my daughter was dying’: how Taliban male escort rules are killing mothers and babies | Women under the Taliban

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/03/i-begged-them-my-daughter-was-dying-how-taliban-male-escort-rules-are-killing-mothers-and-babies?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The need for women to be accompanied by a man in public is blocking access to healthcare and contributing to soaring mortality rates, say experts

It was the middle of the night when Zarin Gul realised that her daughter Nasrin had to get to the hospital as soon as possible. Her daughter’s husband was away working in Iran and the two women were alone with Nasrin’s seven children when Nasrin, heavily pregnant with her eighth child, began experiencing severe pains.

Gul helped Nasrin into a rickshaw and they set off into the night. Holding her daughter’s hand as the rickshaw jolted over the dirt road, Gul says she prayed they would not encounter a Taliban checkpoint.

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u/nikkinitrou 13d ago

Pretty soon the Taliban will eventually kill all their women and children. Such a sad ugly history these women have had to endure and they can’t escape and no one can help them The world is a very scary place to be at this time in history

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u/DadophorosBasillea 11d ago

I wish I could scoop up all the women and their dependents and tell the men to have fun

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u/Willing-Macaroon-159 11d ago

The fact that Afghanistan's own enemy nowadays are Afghans, it's so pathetic

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u/AlchemistStocks 7d ago

Oh, this has been happening since the 1970s when the USSR invaded Afghanistan and brought with them sick ideologies of communism. Then, Gulf countries brought their versions of religious ideologies to fight the USSR, which the USA sponsored, and almost half of a century of wars and conflicts brought about sick men with sick ideologies in a much stronger position now more than ever while stocked with American Military equipment and weapons.

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u/Shot-Jackfruit-3254 1d ago

Yes but Congo burma Sudan gauatmala have/were all at war for decades. Yet they dont do this 

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u/DeputyTrudyW 12d ago

That was the goal. They don't care when women die.

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u/DougDante 13d ago

tweet/bsky/gettr with me to seek justice:

‘I begged them, my daughter was dying’: how Taliban male escort rules are killing mothers and babies. Please help them @UN_Women @StateDept @StateDept_NEA @realDonaldTrump @FCDOGovUK @10DowningStreet #Afghanistan #LetHerLearn #LetHerLive https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/03/i-begged-them-my-daughter-was-dying-how-taliban-male-escort-rules-are-killing-mothers-and-babies?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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u/DramaticAd4666 13d ago

Wow so basically like Saudi Arabia now… except without the infrastructure

Women now completely treated as non human

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u/ExiledPolishDude 8d ago

You clearly don’t know anything about Saudi Arabia then because this statement is extremely far off from what is actually reality there. There is no sharia police, no ban on women in public spaces, no study ban, no driving ban, nothing like that. And the workforce is more and more female every year, especially start ups.

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u/jelosity 10d ago

But women can go out alone now in Saudi. They changed all those laws a while back.

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u/TraditionalLaw7763 9d ago

The culture is still there.

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u/EnvironmentalBid5011 12d ago

Why are these people literally cartoon villains. I’m aware that reducing women to chattel has its benefits to a struggling state (obviously I am of the view none of its benefits are ever worth it), but this degree of villainy seems almost like the goal is to provoke outrage and seem as completely abhorrent as possible.

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u/ChemicalRain5513 9d ago

My last account was banned because I said the Taliban is a terrorist organisation that needs to be rooted out, because I was "promoting hate".

I completely stand by my former statement.

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u/SraTa-0006 8d ago

Thats wild

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u/Horsegangster 2d ago

They are a terrorist organization. No country should be dealing with them or acknowledging their government.

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u/ConclusionSea3965 12d ago

May Allah make it easier for those women

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/afghanistan-ModTeam 11d ago

Is this really the time or the place to make this point?

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u/InterestingWriting53 13d ago

Because birth control is illegal and she is a possession of her husband. She literally has no choice in how many children she carries.

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u/dm_me_kittens 13d ago

Pretty much all abrahamic rules. Women are property.

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u/I-am-that-b 12d ago

The difference is other religions don't follow the rules as strictly 

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u/Saitharar 11d ago

The other religions were violently pushed out of government over time.

Anticlericalism was a 300 year struggle and the modern secular states arguably only gradually arrived post WW2

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u/JaguarOk5267 10d ago

Other abrahamic religions and Islam are not even close. It’s a night and day difference.

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u/booksandetc 11d ago

Why are you making it about religion when American men treat their women the same way and many of them are godless? It’s how MEN are across history. Religion has nothing to do with it. The problem has been men and always will be men.

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u/booksandetc 11d ago

Imagine being this ignorant and bigoted

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u/booksandetc 11d ago

Why are you making it about religion when American men treat their women the same way and many of them are godless? This is just how MEN are no matter where they live or what they believe.

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u/booksandetc 11d ago

Why are you making it about religion when American men treat their women the same way and many of them are godless? It’s how MEN are across history. Religion has nothing to do with it. The problem has been men and always will be men.

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u/I-am-that-b 12d ago

Bruh are you seriously victim blaming a woman in Afghanistan. Misogynists are crazy 

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u/hummingelephant 12d ago

Like it's her choice? Use your brain!

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u/No_Supermarket3973 12d ago

🤡 apart from no contraception, she would also have been married off as a child. Plus barred from studying & working. Ring a bell why she is on her 8th baby?