Posted on 09/15/2025 4:43:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
When Shahnaz went into labour, her husband Abdul called a taxi to take them to the only medical facility accessible to them.
"She was in a lot pain," he says.
A 20-minute drive away, the clinic was in Shesh Pol village in Afghanistan's north-eastern Badakhshan province. It was where their two older children were born.
Abdul sat next to Shahnaz comforting her as they drove over gravel tracks to reach help.
"But when we reached the clinic, we saw that it was closed. I didn't know it had shut down," he said, his face crumpling with agony.
The clinic in Shesh Pol is one of more than 400 medical facilities that closed down in Afghanistan, one of the world's poorest countries, after the Trump administration cut nearly all US aid to the country earlier this year, in a drastic and abrupt move following the dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
Other medical facilities are simply too far from Abdul's village, and it was not without risk for Shahnaz to travel on bumpy roads. Abdul also didn't have money to pay for a longer journey.
"But the baby was coming and we had to stop by the side of the road," Abdul said.
Shahnaz delivered their baby girl in the car. Shortly after, she died, bleeding profusely. A few hours later, before she could be named, their baby also died.
The US insists no one has died because of aid cuts. Shahnaz and her baby's deaths are not recorded anywhere. Neither are countless others.
The BBC has documented at least half a dozen first-hand, devastating accounts in areas where USAID-supported clinics have shut down.
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Not our problem.
Don’t care.
L
We are not responsible for the world. Period
Good riddance.
Trump burned my toast this morning
Very sad. Very unnecessary. Well, that is Islam. That is the Taliban. That is Joe Biden’s withdrawal.
It’s Afghanistan. Why are we responsible? Maybe they should try to get out of the 7th century.
Why didn’t he try the Talaban funded clinic first?
Talk to the Taliban people of Afghanistan! Our government has been sending them the money. What they do with it is your problem, not ours. The people of the USA are tired of these type of made up stories trying to guilt trip us. It doesn’t work any.
IF I believe this story (which I don’t) I do feel sorry for the family.
However, we have babies dying in America which our money is more appropriately spent on, it is the responsibility of your country to ensure such infrastructure exists as opposed to spending it on Taliban violence porn and opiate crops.
Why are you not holding your own government responsible? Oh, because even the death of you (if we believe you) infant is more an opportunity for you to spread your hateful ideology as opposed to motivate you to help ensure others do not suffer the same fate.
They should be devoting themselves to creating a good life for themselves.
The US doesn’t owe Afghanistan jack sh—. Keep reaching a holes. It’s not working. The BBC = NPRPBS
Yep - everything else they attribute to the will of @llah. I am failing to see how this is an ‘our’ problem.
Sounds like the BBC and The Crown need to shut up, quit wasting time, and open their checkbooks to change those former USAID-supported clinics into BBC/Crown-supported clinics.
lol
Move to London.
Wow, the people of America have nothing to do with this guy’s personal sad story out there in a distant world somewhere on planet earth, and it is being written by the British BBC no less.
And, tellingly, what the Beeb is refusing to report...
Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧
@TRobinsonNewEra
The guardian reported “110k” at our London rally today.
Yet, literally had their own helicopter showing the millions of patriots 🤡
Legacy media proving again they’ll just lie to your face for their own agenda.
This is why nobody trusts them.
We are the media now.
4:07 PM · Sep 13, 2025 56.6M Views
https://x.com/trobinsonnewera/status/1966956948194292004
Awesome aerial video at the link.
How about Saudi or Qatar fund these instead of funding the terrorists?
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