Maryam Sadat, a 24-year-old Afghan girl, committed suicide by jumping from the fifth floor of a building in Islamabad’s B-17 area.
It was not only Maryam who was suffering from depression, but every other Afghan woman is suffering from similar psychological stress.
Pakistan-based Nazo (pseudonym) of Kandahar describes the tragedy in these words.
Bereaved by her daughter’s death, 50-year-old Basmina (pseudonym) Maryam’s mother, while talking to Digital today, said that we ate dinner together, she was apparently fine but often told me that life is very difficult here. It’s done, let’s go somewhere else mom’, so I would say ‘Where will we go because of our visa renewal issue’.
Basmina said that my daughter was an educated girl, but she was not getting a job here, There was talk of work in one place but she was disappointed there too, the house was rented from above while the electricity cost 50 thousand rupees. .
Basmina said that that night, I went to sleep, but Maryam was talking to her fiance who lives in Jumzar Sharif. He was asking her to send money, but Maryam told him that they did not have money for their own expenses, so where should she get him money. Their economic conditions are deteriorating day by day. Sometimes they ask for a loan from one, sometimes from another, which is difficult to get off.
