Doctors at a hospital in Qalat, capital of Zabul Province in southern Afghanistan, are treating a brutally tortured woman whose husband cut off both her ears and nose, broke her teeth and shaved her head only three months after their marriage. The victim, 16-year-old Nazia, is also suffering from psychiatric distress due to her experience, according to a doctor in Qalat hospital.
From her bed in Qalat hospital Nazia told IRIN her story:
“My family wedded me to Mumtaz [a 40-year-old man] some three months ago, in Pakistan. Soon after our marriage we moved to his house in Qalat where his relatives told me he had another wife who had died a year ago. In Qalat my husband was jobless and was always complaining about economic problems. Two weeks after we moved to our new home he beat me for no obvious reason.
“One day I asked him to let me go to a party at my in-laws. He agreed and said I should return home in the afternoon. That day, although I came home early, I found him very angry. He beat me again, worse than the first time, and warned that he would kill me if I stepped outside the home again. He also told his brother and nephews not to come to our house in his absence.
“Day-after-day Mumtaz’s suspicion increased. He was thinking other men were visiting me while he was not at home. He did not listen to my pleas and was always saying that all women are bad and unfaithful to men. During this time he often beat me with a stick.
“One night he hit me so much that I fainted. When I regained consciousness I found my head had been shaved. I cried so much, but he did not care.
“One week later he knocked me down, bound my hands, and then broke my teeth with a stone. He also poured boiling water on my feet. After this I could not walk and was in a lot of pain, but he said I was only pretending.
“No one was coming to our house so I could not tell anyone about my situation. I had nowhere else to go either. My family lives in Pakistan.
“One night I could not cook dinner for him because I could not stand on my feet. He got so upset when he found that there was nothing for him to eat. He started beating me. Again, he bound my hands with a piece of cloth. I felt a terrible pain in my left ear and then blood was flowing down my face. I thought that he wanted to kill me so I started screaming. Then I felt a similar pain in my right ear and more blood.
“I tasted a mixture of blood and tears in my mouth while my voice was fading. I felt the worst pain in my life only a few seconds later when my husband used his knife to cut off my nose. I fainted.
“Now I do not know where my husband has gone.”
(Source: IRIN, Qalat, 26/12/07)
that is sooo horrible!! a 16 yr old??? n d husband is gone? he needs to be found and punished.. oh the poor girl.. :””(
I know, this is the case of one of the millions!
Being on the sidelines is worst!
Depressing ain’t it?
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Sad… Perhaps a case among 100s. Aye?!!!
Nope, a case among 100 000. You’d be surprised.
And for the Taliban to claim that they didn’t kill Bhutto coz they don’t hit women. Yeah right, but torture them in all other means possible.
On that note, I believe Musharraf (not the Taliban) are responsible for Bhutto’s death.
and meanwhile there are tons of americans going crazy over the 11 yr afghan girl who married the old man (when they forget more than 50% are below the poverty line & its better than ending up in a brothel) and totally ignoring the Jamie Lynn story (I doubt if the 11 yr old girl, if she had financial freedom would act .01 as slutty as Spears) (http://video1.washingtontimes.com/culture/2007/12/the_western_world_recoiled_in.html)
^ in case I’m going off, but I meant to say that they just pay attention to the sensationalism, rather than take on stories like the one above.
stories that can’t be hyped up, and stories that are all too common – everywhere.
i feel your pain — having your nose cut off is one of the worst things in the world.
i live in america, and i went to plastic surgeon richard ellenbogen of the TV show dr. 90210 — he is a true psychopath.
i asked him for a very minor change, and came out with all of the internal anatomy of the tip of my nose and half of my nasal bridge removed. i am just devasted as he turned me from pretty to hideous, deformed and unrecognizeable.
i can only imagine the pain this lady feels to have her entire nose, & ears cut off, & her feet burned. i am suffering endlessly, so she must even be worse.
why are men so evil? why are there so many psychopaths out there? why is there no protection for women?
Just loudly alarming the terrible situation…..
wake up oh thou sleeping…..or pretending to sleep
I’m sorry for your loss, Sarah. Just don’t hate all men because of what ONE MAN did to you.
I doubt if this girl would have married him if she had a choice. A husband is suposed to protect his wife, not cut her face off. This guy is obviously a bad person to marry. There are a lot better guys out there. Like… everyone else on the planet.
Arranged marriages should be illegal.
But nice guys don’t get married unless its arranged LOL
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Standard Paki behaviour – kill them all …
Right on
I can’t even imagine, the pain of having ones nose cut off, nonetheless ears. What a monster of a man! He needs to have the same done to him, see how he likes living disfigured!
All the Muslim will going to die
Let find him and kill him and rape him and cut him in to piece.
Don’t worry pray to God in heaven he will take you if he try to kill you. You must kill him back
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Men like that should have there genitals removed. And also forced to withstand the same torture he put you through only publicly.
It’s sad that there are places and people on this planet that condone such things. Advice : (maybe too late) but get the hell out of there. Start a new life in a new country. Or else you could very well go through the same thing again. Heaven forbid. Good luck ! Stay strong !