The court ruled that her nose and ears must be cut off, an act carried out by the six men in the mountains of Oruzgan, where they left her to die. She was brought to the United States where she received reconstructive surgery and a new life. Share this on:. A Taliban court ruled that Bibi Aisha's nose and ears were to be cut off after she was accused of bringing shame to her family.
Most Popular. Click here to join our channel TheWeekmagazine and stay updated with the latest headlines. Home News World. Bibi Ayesha. Bringing in a plate of freshly cooked soft scrambled eggs, Moayer said she nearly choked up when the young woman spent several minutes thanking her profusely for the meal, a maternal gesture about which Moayer had thought little.
Peter Grossman, plans to perform the surgery, says she has learned a great deal from her experience helping Bibi Aisha and Zubaida, another young woman from Afghanistan whose burn injuries required years of operations in the United States. The reality is, intervening is often far more complicated than it sounds.
Many times the patients the Grossman Burn Foundation brings to Los Angeles for treatment find it difficult to function in their native villages and cities after the disjointed experience of life amid the attention, amenities, and luxuries of modern life in Los Angeles. The story of one young boy whose case came to Grossman from a U.
After months of living with a host family in the U. Today, having managed a number of cases in which the Grossman Burn Foundation has hosted men and women from economically devastated Asian and African countries, she thinks the resources dedicated to individual cases might be better devoted to supporting doctors in their native countries so that the arduous cultural transitions might be avoided.
Women for Afghan Women has now brought the young woman to the East Coast, where it hopes she will find the solace and stability she needs to prepare her for the path ahead and surgery down the road. They will hire teachers to help her learn English and other skills.
And she will continue her jewelry-making. July 2 - American troops quietly pull out of their main military base in Afghanistan - Bagram Air Base - ending US involvement in the war.
July 21 - Taliban insurgents control about half of the country's districts, according to the senior US general, underlining the scale and speed of their advance. July 25 - US vows to continue to support Afghan troops "in the coming weeks" with intensified airstrikes to help them counter Taliban attacks. July 26 - The United Nations says nearly 2, Afghan civilians were killed or wounded in May and June in escalating violence, the highest number for those months since records started in August 6 - Zaranj in the south of the country becomes the first provincial capital to fall to the Taliban in years and many more follow in the ensuing days, including the prized city of Kunduz in the north.
August 13 - Four more provincial capitals fall in a day, including Kandahar, the country's second city and spiritual home of the Taliban. In the west, another key city, Herat, is overrun. August 14 - The Taliban take the major northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif and, with little resistance, Pul-e-Alam, capital of Logar province just 40 miles south of Kabul. August 15 - The Taliban take the key eastern city of Jalalabad without a fight, effectively surrounding Kabul.
August 16 - The world watches on as the West desperately tries to evacuate its citizens as the Taliban seize power in Afghanistan. US President Joe Biden was bullish yesterday as he tried to shake off any criticism over the troop pull out which heralded Afghanistan's collapse. The plan was set in motion by his predecessor Donald Trump who signed a peace deal with the Taliban, but Biden's rapid and seemingly ill-manged execution has been widely condemned.
The Prime Minister said the "difficult" situation had been exacerbated by the President's decision to withdraw troops from the war-torn country. In the wake of a Cobra meeting on Sunday afternoon, Mr Johnson said it was "fair to say the US decision to pull out has accelerated things, but this has in many ways been a chronicle of an event foretold.
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