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Selling Children to Survive: Afghan Fathers Forced to Make Impossible Choices
BBC ^ | 5/19 | Yogita Limaye

Posted on 05/20/2026 10:03:27 AM PDT by nickcarraway

As dawn breaks, hundreds of men gather at a dusty square in Chaghcharan, the capital of Ghor province in Afghanistan.

They line the roadside with weary faces, hoping someone will come along offering any work. It will determine whether their families eat that day.

The likelihood of success, however, is low.

Juma Khan, 45, has found just three days of work in the past six weeks that paid between 150 to 200 Afghani ($2.35-$3.13; £1.76-£2.34) per day.

"My children went to bed hungry three nights in a row. My wife was crying, so were my children. So I begged a neighbour for some money to buy flour," he says.

"I live in fear that my children will die of hunger."

His story is in no way unique.

Warning: This article contains distressing details

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bbc; bidencrimefamily; bidenlegacy; children; islam; muslim; muslims; paywall; rop; taliban; yogitalimaye

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1 posted on 05/20/2026 10:03:27 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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no problem. GW MORON and the ‘conservative’ neoCON scum will give him work mowing their lawn for $5 right here in America. Get the whole extended family signed up for welfare and food stamps and sign them up for a drivers license and oh since they’re there the motor voter BJ Clinton law gets them signed up to vote. Diversity is muh strength. Muh corporation.


3 posted on 05/20/2026 10:06:47 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: nickcarraway

in before the Monty Python Meaning of life, “it’s scientific experiments for the lot of you...” Every sperm is sacred.


4 posted on 05/20/2026 10:09:32 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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https://archive.ph/5KlFI


5 posted on 05/20/2026 10:09:56 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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NO! You do NOT sell your children, under any circumstances. You are never forced to sell your children. There are somethings a normal person will never do, regardless of what happens.


6 posted on 05/20/2026 10:10:08 AM PDT by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT! Blue Lives Matter! White lives matter. )
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Warning: This article contains distressing details

That pretty much sums up BBC news in general

7 posted on 05/20/2026 10:12:29 AM PDT by xp38
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To: nickcarraway

How much for your women?


8 posted on 05/20/2026 10:13:13 AM PDT by central_va (DI won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: nickcarraway

Islam gonna Islam.

BUT if we import these low iq savages on to our magical dirt they will instantly become productive members of a diverse society.


9 posted on 05/20/2026 10:15:01 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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Meanwhile, right here, people are having fewer children for reasons including being able to provide for them. People that is who are not relying on someone else to take care of them and their children.


10 posted on 05/20/2026 10:17:54 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Opinions and belly buttons, everybody has one and they get to show them if they want to.)
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To: nickcarraway

Obviously, this article wants us to give Afghans more money!
Afghans decided, that they prefer Taliban, so let Taliban take care about all of their people.
I am sorry for them, but I will not give them a penny, as long as Taliban is in charge!


11 posted on 05/20/2026 10:20:46 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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Thank God every day you were born in the USA.


12 posted on 05/20/2026 10:20:49 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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“”Thank God every day you were born in the USA.””

***

Amen to that. No matter what happens in our future, we have been blessed to be born in this nation and able to enjoy true freedom.


13 posted on 05/20/2026 10:29:51 AM PDT by Danie_2023 (I'm America First, but I stand by Israel and against 'anyone' that acts against America or Israel.)
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To: nickcarraway

These Afghan guys are supposed to be crack shots. If they can’t find work and their kids are hungry why don’t they hunt in those hills for rabbits ,game or birds?


14 posted on 05/20/2026 10:32:32 AM PDT by allendale
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Yes. It breaks my heart to know it will probably not always be so.


15 posted on 05/20/2026 10:42:15 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: nickcarraway

Oh please, muzzies have been selling their children for as long as the religion has been around...especially their daughters.


16 posted on 05/20/2026 10:55:21 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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The MSM/globalist muslim-victimhood narrative is broad, non-stop and relentless — whether it is about migrants, western muslim politicians or islamic centers, or poor fathers in Afghanistan

BBC is among the very worst, being a tool of London globalists.

Its obviously one of their key media and political narratives to keeping the financial and political control they still have.


17 posted on 05/20/2026 10:57:36 AM PDT by PGR88
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I want to buy your women. Your wife, your daughter, the little girl, sell them to me!


18 posted on 05/20/2026 10:58:04 AM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: nickcarraway

birth control in their water supply.
the world does not need any more Afghans. Yeah I said it.


19 posted on 05/20/2026 11:06:22 AM PDT by ronniesgal (can FR please get a "like" button and a "block" button? Please.)
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Oh, yeah, right. Something new under the sun.


20 posted on 05/20/2026 11:08:13 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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