A DAD was left heartbroken after a Taliban "rape gang" took away his 21-year-old daughter as they go door-to-door looking for "young brides".
After seizing control of Afghanistan, fighters are now targeting children as young as 12 as they hunt for sex slaves.
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Taliban gangs are reportedly targeting children as young as 12 as they look for 'young brides' Credit: AP 2
Fighters left a dad distraught after taking his unmarried 21-year-old daughter away Credit: Alamy
In one case, insurgents turned up at a family's home in Afghan village Badakhshan and demanded a father hand over one of his daughters, reports Hollie McKay, a journalist who escaped the country after its fall to the Taliban.
Writing in The Dallas Morning News, she told how an Afghan woman, Fariha Easer, recounted to her how her friends had been targeted by the terror group as they conquered the war-torn country.
"She (Fariha) told me the Taliban have been going house-to-house, looking for women and girls over 15 for marriage," McKay reported.
"A month ago, insurgent members arrived on the doorstep of her friend's home in Badakhshan, which fell to the group several months ago, looking for young brides.
"Fariha told me the story she had heard from her friend."
Fariha told McKay: "They (the Taliban gang) were saying that they are saviors, the guards of Islam, the liberators of the West.
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"They asked one father to give over his daughters as wives. They said one of the Taliban is a mullah (Muslim mosque leader), and they must make an engagement for him."
The devastated dad was given no choice in the matter, and his unmarried 21-year-old daughter was taken away that night.
Fariha added: "The father went to the district governor and was told there was nothing he could do.
"Whatever could be done, he must do himself."
The father then fled into hiding with his other daughters.
Women and girls are believed to be some of the most at-risk people under the new Taliban regime - despite their attempts to give off a more modern persona.
They were brutalised and oppressed - with cruel tortures and public executions - when the militant group ruled Afghanistan in the 90s.
And it appears the Taliban are bringing back their vile ways amid reports they are forcing marriages and demanding lists of women and girls.
It comes after Taliban thugs beat a man and left him covered in blood as he tried to board an evacuation flight at Kabul airport.
'THEY HIT ME'
Disturbing video shows the man speaking in English describing what happened as he tried to flee in the final hours before the Taliban said they will stop people leaving.
Meanwhile, desperate Afghan families have been forced to wade through sewage in a bid to escape the chaos of Kabul as children are killed in the carnage.
Horrific scenes outside Kabul airport as troops dash to save thousands of foreign nationals and Afghan allies.
Footage from near the airport shows man with blood running down his face and spattered across his polo shirt as he talks to the camera.
“They hit me mate. I’m an Australian citizen, they hit me. See this happened to me,” he said, speaking in an Australian accent.
The footage cuts out as a one of Taliban fighters who has surrounded him cocks his rifle.
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