Seventeen-year-old Shakila Zareen had been married for seven months to her first cousin when he shot her in the face, blowing out her teeth, nose, left eye, and the hearing in her left ear.

Shakila Zareen was welcomed to Canada after she was shot in the face by her husband in Afghanistan. The United States originally welcomed her but reversed that decision after U.S. President Donald ...

Shakila Zareen has not led an easy life. The 25-year-old was 16 when her brother-in-law forced her to marry a man many years older. She was beaten and raped — abuse, she says, that started on ...

When Shakila Zareen heard footsteps outside her mother's house one night in 2012, she peered into the dark to try to see who was there. She heard the voices of her husband, her brother-in-law and ...

Eighteen-year-old Shakila Zareen was born to poor parents ... Some nice suits, shoes, bags — she got them all. “You are a lovely human being,” said Shakila. Shakila is desperate to stay ...

Shakila Zareen, when she was only 17 years old, was forcibly married to a much older cousin, 14 years her senior, who had links to the Taliban. In 2013, her husband shot her in the face ...

From Shakila Zareen's harrowing story surviving violent abuse by her husband, who shot her in the face; to how emojis are causing confusion in court; to the challenges controlling the spread of ...

A year ago on The Current, we spoke to Shakila Zareen, a young Afghan woman who had been shot in the face by her husband. Zareen has been rebuilding her life in Canada, undergoing extensive ...

Afghanistan remains one of the worst places for women. Last year official numbers confirmed 3,500 cases of violence against women, and it’s feared the numbers will grow as the security situation ...

Shakila Zareen was just 17 when her poor parents, driven by financial compulsions, married her to a 31-year-old cousin. Her dreams of a happy married life were soon shattered by an abusive husband ...

NEW DELHI: Shakila Zareen, 17, stroking her shattered face gently says “Mein bahut sundar thi, dekho kya kar diya usne (I was very pretty, see what he has done). She was allegedly shot at by her ...

Shakila Zareen, 25, is one of the rare survivors. She was forced into child marriage, was raped and has undergone 22 operations after she was shot in the face by her husband. Now she is using her ...