Lack of Value

(Kunduz Province, Afghanistan) Reports of women being murdered in Afghanistan are commonplace. Here's another.

An Afghan man and his mother choked the man's wife to death, when the child she gave birth to was a third girl. The man had threatened to kill her unless the baby was a boy.

The husband of a 30-year-old Afghan woman carried out his threat to kill her, if the baby she was carrying was another girl. Demonstrating the lack of value given to women, the victim, identified only as Storay, " was choked to death by her husband and her mother-in-law in a remote village in Khanabad district of Kunduz province," said Sayed Sarwar Hussaini, Times Live reported.

Storay was already a mother to two girls when her husband threatened to kill her if the third child was another female. Her husband murdered her when the infant was three-months-old and he is now on the run.

Sad.