On the heels of their crusade against girls going to schools, the Taliban have now issued a new dictum in areas under their sway, asking parents of grown up daughters to marry them to militants or “face dire consequences”.
This new force-marriage campaign is being run in most of the areas in Pakistan’s troubled North West Frontier Province through regular announcements made in mosques to congregations. Such instances have come to light recently through some of the affected women daring to go to authorities for justice rather than meekly surrender to the militants.
Salma, who teaches in a primary school in Peshawar, told leading daily the Dawn that the Taliban have told families to declare in mosques if they have unmarried girls so their hand could be given in marriage to militants. If they did not, the girls would be forcibly married off, the report said.
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