Taliban official’s forced marriage to married woman; new case of corruption and sexual abuse.
Local sources say that Maulvi Mahboobullah Hamid, the deputy governor of the Taliban in Ghor province, has forcibly married a married woman for his fourth marriage and moved her to the city of Faizabad.
According to the sources, the woman was the fiancée of a Taliban leader in the village of Farghamanj in Jerm district, but Maulvi Hamid threatened the man and forced the marriage without a divorce.
The Taliban official had previously been accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Jerm district of Badakhshan.
Sources have narrated that after this rape, he married the girl to himself by paying 50,000 Afghanis to “silence” the victim’s family. The girl’s family was forced to accept this marriage due to threats and pressure.
This incident is just one of many cases of abuse, violence and moral corruption by Taliban officials that have been reported in the past four years. Similar reports have been reported from different provinces of the Taliban’s abuse and forced care of married women.
Critics say that the continuation of these cases indicates the Taliban’s lack of will to address internal corruption and sexual abuse in the group’s power structure.
