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<title><![CDATA[Weak become ever more vulnerable in Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The National: The National: Juma Gul&#8217;s muffled crying became noticeable only when she wiped the tears away using her burqa or slumped forward with her head in her hands. Speaking Uzbek, she described how she made the equivalent of about Dh440 by selling her baby daughter off for marriage. The girl&#8217;s fiancé had memorised the Quran and his father promised that her virginity would be respected until she was an adult. The couple eventually wed four years ago, when she was eight and he was in his late twenties.]]></description>
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