Police arrest man for selling 130 ladies into marriage slavery

The Police on Monday evening arrested a man accused of selling 130 women after beguiling that he would arrange for marriages with rich men in the northern part of the country.

The female trafficker was arrested by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan after he had beguiled the ladies he would arrange marriage to fort hem with people who have money.

The Taliban provincial police chief, Damullah Seraj, on Tuesday disclosed that the police arrested the man in northern Jawzjan province late on Monday, noting that investigations are still at elementary stage.

Seraj stated: “We are still in our initial stages of the investigation. We hope to find out more about this case later.”

A district police chief in Jawzjan, Mohammad Sardar Mubariz, had revealed that the arrested trafficker targets poor women who are desperate to change their uncomfortable circumstances through marriages with rich men.

The man, according, Sardar Mubariz, would diverts the destinations of the women he had promised to arrange wealthy husbands to marry them, to a different province where he sells them into slavery.

The police reiterated that the has done this to about 130 women to boost his human trafficking business.

The Taliban interior ministry also revealed on Tuesday that 60 people, including staff of the passport department, have been arrested for forging documents to secure passports in Afghanistan.