The report said families paid thousands of dollars to have men marry or pose as husbands for women.
See more stories on Insider's business pageSome Afghan families forced women and girls into marriages at Kabul's airport to secure them safe passage out of the country after the Taliban takeover last month, according to a report fromTwo sources familiar with the matter told CNN that US officials processing Afghan refugees in the United Arab Emirates wrote a diplomatic cable on the issue recently.
The cable said that there were some instances of women and girls who were forced into marriage with men who were on the list of evacuees, or arrived in the UAE with men posing as their husbands to get out of Afghanistan, according to CNN. CNN reported that families paid eligible men thousands of dollars to marry or pose as husbands for women to flee. The report said it was unclear how widespread of an issue this was.under the last Taliban regime in the 1990s, where they weren't allowed to go to school or hold jobs.to women's education and roles in society now that they are back in power, but many Afghan women remain skeptical and have sought to escape the country.
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