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The BBC investigated a conversation between an eighteen-year-old woman, identified as Tuba, and Governor Abdullah Sarhadi of Jawzjan province, Afghanistan, in which she requested a divorce from her husband. '"
During the exchange, Sarhadi suggested Tuba should be given her own room and cautioned that he would be jailed if he beat her. He also stated that a financial settlement, involving returning four times the amount of money given to her upon marriage – which her family refused to pay – was standard under Sharia law. Governor Sarhadi, who previously served as a military commander during the Taliban’s first rule in the 1990s and spent several years in US detention at Guantanamo Bay, also used a mobile phone to complain about a recent ban on smartphones for officials, stating that it slowed things down.
During the exchange, Sarhadi suggested Tuba should be given her own room and cautioned that he would be jailed if he beat her. He also stated that a financial settlement, involving returning four times the amount of money given to her upon marriage – which her family refused to pay – was standard under Sharia law. Governor Sarhadi, who previously served as a military commander during the Taliban’s first rule in the 1990s and spent several years in US detention at Guantanamo Bay, also used a mobile phone to complain about a recent ban on smartphones for officials, stating that it slowed things down.
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Progress66: Rate of divorce is high, and they use it as a financial opportunity especially when the man is ruch