Taliban Brutally Beats Pregnant Woman, Leaving Her Unborn Baby Dead
KABUL: (Middle East Press) An Afghan pregnant woman has lost her unborn baby after she was brutally beaten by Taliban group for being the wife of a former Afghan interpreter for the British forces.
The woman, identified by the single name Sabir, was brutally beaten by a commander of the Taliban in front of her children after refusing to reveal the whereabouts of her husband.
Sabir, who was three months pregnant at the time, said she and her husband, along with their two children, were fleeing Khost province after they had received death threats from the Taliban. She said the insurgents had threatened to kill her husband, known as Chris, for having worked for UK forces as an interpreter for three years.
Sabir was also reportedly warned that her two other children would also die if her husband was not surrendered.
According to her, she had been traveling in a vehicle with her two children, when the Taliban blocked their way in Paktia province. Her husband had been in a second vehicle behind them.
Sabir was taken to hospital in Khost with severe stomach pain from the beating. Doctors told her she would lose her baby. It was heartbreaking, she said. She and her children suffered nightmares from what Sabir called ‘the worst ordeal of my life’. Chris reported the attack to British officials who told him they would investigate.
