Of all the famous faces that have adorned the cover of Time magazine, few have been more controversial than the beautiful Afghan photographed this August. The woman’s nose had been hacked off by her Taleban husband. The picture shocked, but the caption below it caused the controversy: “What happens when we leave Afghanistan”, it said starkly, without a question mark.
She was Bibi Aisha, an 18-year-old from Oruzgan. Having been given away aged 12 as a bride to a Taleban fighter, for six years Aisha was beaten and used as a domestic slave. When she fled, the Taleban found her