{"id":22286,"date":"2023-12-20T14:13:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T09:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/?p=22286"},"modified":"2023-12-21T15:58:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T11:28:03","slug":"burdensome-dowries-in-nuristan-prompt-calls-for-change-and-price-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/en\/burdensome-dowries-in-nuristan-prompt-calls-for-change-and-price-caps\/","title":{"rendered":"Burdensome dowries in Nuristan prompt calls for change and price caps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Arif Ahmad<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Critics of the tradition of exchanging goods to secure a wife in the eastern Afghanistan province of Nuristan say the arrangement is detrimental to both women and men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In most Nuristan districts, girls are given by their families to a man in exchange for animals such as goats, sheep, cows, and goods such as cash, or guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In some districts, the \u201cbride price\u201d or dowry for a woman makes it extremely hard for some families to secure a bride for their son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man\u2019s family may be expected to pay the bride\u2019s family as much as 200.000 afghanis (US$2900) cash, around 100 goats or sheep, two cows, 560 kgs of grain, with some weapons thrown in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Men of Mandol burdened by dowry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mandol is a district in west Nuristan bordering Laghman province. Residents here say that many young men and women have not been able marry due to the high cost of this tradition. The problem affects mostly poorer families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In some cases, young men are migrating to neighboring countries to earn more income and save for their marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mandol resident Zabihullah, 22, told Rukhshana Media that it\u2019s been five years since he was engaged, but he has not managed to make enough for the dowry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTwo hundred thousand(200.000) afghanis, 120 sheep, 2 cows, 280 kgs of grain, and 2 weapons are my fianc\u00e9\u2019s price, which I cannot provide,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zabihullah leaves home early in the morning before sunrise for work and returns home late in the evening in his effort to earn more money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Arif, 26, his wedding went ahead six years ago, but he still hasn&#8217;t paid off the dowry debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI have already given 35,250 afghanis (US$500) cash, 150 sheep, two cows, two guns, 16 kilos of animal oil, and 320 kilos of corn for the bride price,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When he and his wife were engaged, Arif was a student. He said his family forced him to marry, but he incurred the debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Young families start out with debt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Farida* feels that she is a victim of this tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two years have passed since she married a farmer in Mandol. Her husband still owes her father goats, cows, guns, and cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI got engaged at the age of 23. We waited four years while my husband worked to pay my dowry to my father. But he couldn\u2019t prepare the entire amount during this time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, Farida\u2019s father agreed to the dowry as a debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAfter four years, my father loaned us the herd and the bride price. I was happy to get married after a long wait, but after two years of our marriage, we still can\u2019t pay off my father&#8217;s loan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Elders support continuing dowry traditions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A local elder has defended the tradition as a sacrifice the residents are willing to make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn our region, it\u2019s customary for a boy&#8217;s family to give a girl&#8217;s family at least 150,000 afghanis (around&nbsp; US$2200), 150 sheep, two cows, 490 kg of grains, two guns and five to 35-42 kgs of animal oil,\u201d Mandol tribal elder Mohammad Yousuf said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 69-year-old described it as an ancient and strict tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople are happy with it and it\u2019s a tradition that must be done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Burden of debt is a kind of \u2018violence\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In neighboring Nurgam district, Sitara* is still waiting to get married give years after her engagement as her fianc\u00e9 works to pay the dowry to her family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She regards the custom as a kind of oppression against young men and women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy fiance&#8217;s family is poor. Their occupation is agriculture and animal husbandry,\u201d she said. \u201cThey barely earn enough to pay their daily expenses. This tradition itself is violence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The price for Sitara is 25 cows, 100 goats, 100,000 Afghanis (US$1500) in cash, and a Kalashnikov gun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Social norms changing in the city<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tribal elder Mohammad Isa Wahdat in nearby Wamai district said the regions are still sticking with the tradition while in Nuristan\u2019s capital Parun the dowry price is becoming more manageable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor years, girls have been given to husbands in exchange for animals and cash in Nuristan districts. In Wamai, Waigal, Nurgram, Doaab and Mandol, girls are getting married in exchange for 60 to 300 goats and sheep. But in Parun, there is a better custom now than the other districts, where four cows are the amount for a marriage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Religious scholars condemn practice of buying brides<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some religious scholars agree that the tradition is undesirable, but say that nothing will change unless it is outlawed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have always talked about the high price of the dowry and marriage portions and the consequences of these, but people have not acted against it,\u201d said Jumauddin, a religious scholar in Mandol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe government should prevent this bad practice, because in Islam, marrying off a woman for money is forbidden.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Taliban efforts to curb exorbitant prices<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson for the Taliban governor in Nuristan Saifuddin Latoon said its known that exorbitant wedding expenses are causing problems for young people. He said it\u2019s even been attributed as being the cause of family violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Taliban have attempted to ban large wedding gestures and expensive wedding prices in many areas of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, they set price caps on dowries and for weddings in Ghor province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The maximum dowry in Ghor\u2019s Lal-o-Sarjangal district was set at 250,000 afghanis (US$360) and the cap on weddings was set at 80,000 afghanis (US$1200). Similar price caps have been introduced in other parts of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have only informed these caps to the mosques and religious scholars,\u201d Mr Latoon said. \u201cBut we don\u2019t have any official procedure for the costs of a bride yet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<em>*Note: Some of the names have been changed at the request of interviewees.<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics of the tradition of exchanging goods to secure a wife in the eastern Afghanistan province of Nuristan say the arrangement is detrimental to both women and men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override":[{"single_blog_custom":"","sidebar":"","second_sidebar":"","share_position":"","share_float_style":"","post_date_format":"","post_date_format_custom":"","post_reading_time_wpm":"","zoom_button_out_step":"1","zoom_button_in_step":"1","number_popup_post":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"","single_post_gallery_size":""}],"trending_post_position":"","trending_post_label":"","sponsored_post_label":"","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[966,902,896],"tags":[7063,7067,7065],"class_list":["post-22286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-en","category-reports-en","category-uncategorized-en","tag-fghanistan-province","tag-tradition-of-exchanging","tag-women-and-men"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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