Taliban oppression poster girl unveils new nose
12th October 2010
A woman who became the poster girl of Taliban oppression in Afghanistan after being mutilated by her husband has unveiled her new face to the world.
When Aisha was 12, her father vowed to repay a debt by promising her in marriage to a Taliban fighter. She was handed over to the fighter’s family, abused and made to sleep in a stable with animals.
She was caught after trying to escape and her nose and ears were sliced off by her husband as a punishment.
After being left for dead in the mountains, she crawled to her grandfather’s house and was taken to an American medical facility.
Following time time at a shelter in Kabul, she was flown to the US by the Grossman Burn Foundation in August and stayed with an American family.