Afghanistan horror: 'The Taliban are going door-to-door, taking away women and girls over 15 for marriage'

The prospect of being forcibly married to the Taliban now afflicts millions of Afghan girls and women; the security blanket once provided to them by the NATO presence has been torn away with Afghanistan falling to the Taliban

Kabul (Afghanistan): Horror tales from Afghanistan, especially reports of atrocities against women, have been coming forth since the last couple of weeks. Now in a moving report, a journalist who was forced to flee from her homeland, Afghanistan, narrates how life took a complete turn for the women after the country fell to the Taliban. Hollie McKay, writing in The Dallas Morning News, said that after the takeover of Kabul last week, the Taliban have been going house-to-house in the country, looking for women and girls over 15 for marriage. McKay said that though she was able to leave the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, her Afghan friends who remain behind are gripped by the fear of the unknown that awaits them. "I thought of how hard women had fought for their freedoms in this country, only to have them cleaved away with a click of the insurgency finger," said McKay. McKay wrote about a 14-year-old girl whom she had met at a displacement hub on the periphery of Kabul earlier that week. The girl had run for her life from the fighting in Kunduz and just wanted an education and to one day become a doctor. She also wrote about another Afghan woman Fariha Easer, who she met many years earlier. Fariha, who used to be the voice of embattled Afghan women and roamed the volatile country to bring the stories of Afghan women to light and to be a potent force for change, broke into a million pieces after the Taliban takeover.