Gulamaiz Sharifi is a journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Azadi in Prague.
The recent forced evictions of minority Shi’ite Hazaras by the Sunni Pashtun Taliban have raised fears that the historically persecuted community will once again become the main target of Taliban atrocities.
In a show of unity against the practice and in a pioneering move the first of its kind in Afghanistan, civil rights activists, religious clerics, and women in Bamyan’s Yakawlang district agreed to ban forced marriages.
