A desperate Afghan father says he is planning to sell his seven-year-old daughter into marriage because it will feed his family for four years.
Abdul Rashid Azimi, from the Ghor province of Afghanistan, told the BBC that the economic situation in his home country, now run by the Taliban, is so dire that he has been forced to make this terrible choice.
He said: ‘I come home from work with parched lips, hungry, thirsty, distressed and confused. My children come to me saying “Baba, give us some bread”. But what can I give? Where is the work?’
He said he is so desperate for
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