The Heavy Price of Dad's Gambling

Najieh (alias), 22, a former student at one of the health institutes in Mazar-e-Sharif, never imagined that his fate would be in a gambling game. But two years ago, his father lost 300,000 Afghanis in a gamble. When he couldn't pay his debt, he decided to leave his daughter, as the price of this failure, to someone who had won at the gamble. Speaking to the Daily Information newspaper, Najieh recalled the night her father told her she had to mar…