NI gives the inside story on how male sorcerers are keeping women down in Afghanistan.
There are sorcerers, fortune tellers and holy men in every corner of Kabul conning women.
Since these conmen make women believe that any misfortune that befalls them is caused by sorcery and any cure is in sorcery too, women go to them when facing a wide range of problems such as childlessness, illnesses, domestic violence, poverty and more...
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