{"id":12352,"date":"2025-06-29T08:40:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T04:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12352"},"modified":"2025-06-29T08:40:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T04:10:43","slug":"a-young-man-in-takhar-cut-off-his-penis-after-repeated-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/a-young-man-in-takhar-cut-off-his-penis-after-repeated-proposals\/","title":{"rendered":"A young man in Takhar cut off his penis after repeated proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12346\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/takharaaa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Local sources in Takhar province say a former Afghan National Army soldier, a resident of Yangi Qala district, committed suicide and cut off his penis after several failures to propose.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to sources, the 35-year-old man, who had served in the ranks of the country&#8217;s security forces for years, had been unable to marry despite a good financial situation due to unemployment and people&#8217;s fear of contact with former soldiers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>\u00a0Local families have refused to give him the girl.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>After the last refusal, he committed suicide in a desperate and painful act and is now in a coma at the Takhar Provincial Hospital.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Those around him say he has been repeatedly threatened and lives in complete mental isolation in the years since the fall of the republic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>This incident is a bitter symbol of the suffering and forgetfulness of the forces who once gave their lives to defend the country and are left in silence today.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local sources in Takhar province say a former Afghan National Army soldier, a resident of Yangi Qala district, committed suicide and cut off his penis after several failures to propose. According to sources, the 35-year-old man, who had served in the ranks of the country&#8217;s security forces for years, had been unable to marry despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12353,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12352\/revisions\/12353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}