The Sunday Times: Should Afghanistan’s children die of starvation?

The Sunday Times published a report by its correspondent in the Afghan capital, Christina Lamb, entitled “In my 35 years as a reporter, I have never seen anything of Afghanistan’s magnitude.”
Christina begins her report by attempting to describe the suffering of an Afghan family whose breadwinner, under the weight of hunger, was forced to offer two of his daughters – one of whom is still in swaddles and not yet three months old – for sale in order to preserve the life of the rest of the family.
Lala Jan says, “I have to choose between selling my daughters or starving the rest of the family.”
Lala Jan was a worker who earned about $2.20 a day before the Taliban took control of power last August, and since that day he no longer gets anything, and in return the local currency lost about half of its value and prices skyrocketed.
The writer of the report says that this is the case of more than ten million people, who represent, according to United Nations estimates, half of the population of Afghanistan, in the face of death from starvation.