Six Women of One Family in Panjshir Lose Husbands to War

Fakhruddin and Gul Chehra, an elderly couple in Panjshir, lost three sons and three sons-in-law in the war between the Taliban and the National Resistance Front (NRF) late last summer. The elderly couple is now left physically and mentally broken with six widowed women and their orphaned grandchildren.

In September, the Taliban deployed thousands of heavily armed forces in the northeastern Panjshir province and started a military crackdown on the NRF fighters.