My mother was a child bride — this cannot still be happening to girls in Afghanistan

Mahbooba Faiz grew up hearing about her mother's shock and horror at being married at just 10 years old. As the Taliban reintroduces child marriage in Afghanistan, she urges the world to act

Mahbooba Faiz's mother Ruqia Alizadah, who was 10 when she found out about her arranged marriage. 

My mother was a child bride. One day while she was playing with friends in the street, her stepmother suddenly pulled her by the arm and told her to go home because her Nikah ceremony was about to take place. 

She was 10, and she had no idea that a marriage had been arranged for her with my father, who was 15 years older than her.