Re: Walwar - Bride Price
It only affects bridegroom side. Keep in mind it is not a poverty issue, it is custom, a cultural practice, Very wealthy Pashtun families pay or get paid in crores or crores worth of jewelery. Its not a burden on bride as i have observed that the jewellary she recives in walwar, later helps her a lot in difficult times.
About the human trafficking, i have heard that some families in Afghanistan (not just pashtuns but also hazaras and tajiks), are selling their daughters for cash, due to the poverty and devastation caused by continuous wars there. Thats not walwar, thats selling