Bibi

Brave Bibi the Time cover girl whose nose was cut off by the Taliban takes the New York subway

Smiling happily, these friends seem no different from the many millions who take the New York subway each day.

However, behind the carefree appearances lies a remarkable story of someone who has overcome the horror of a brutal childhood and the savagery inflicted on her in adulthood.

Because the girl on the right is none other than Bibi Aisha, the Time cover girl whose nose was cut off by her spiteful Taliban fighter husband but is now rebuilding her life in the Big Apple.

Thanks to the generosity of American people and the wonders of modern surgery this 20-year-old girl can now look forward to a bright future.

Bibi Aisha, now 20, is all smiles as she rides the subway with a friend. She had her nose and ears were hacked off by her Taliban fighter husband after she tried to flee the arranged marriage

At the age of 18, Aisha had her nose and ears hacked off by her husband as a punishment for trying to flee the arranged marriage, before being dragged to a mountainside to die.

Against the odds she survived and last August she gained worldwide attention after an award-winning image of her mutilated face appeared on the cover of Time magazine last August next to the headline 'What Happens When We Leave Afghanistan'.

After being offered sanctuary by the charity Women For Afghan Women, Aisha now lives in America.

Fitted with a prosthetic nose and dressed in stonewash blue jeans and a jacket, the young lady has already managed to fit in perfectly in her new home.

Aisha, who arrived in the U.S. in August last year, now lives in a shared New York apartment and is given regular care by doctors and therapists.

(Daily Mail 17^th February )

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Bibi is an 18 years old girl whose husband, from an arranged marriage (because they are Taliban) cut her nose and ears off because she wanted to escape. He then left her to die in the mountains. She survived and escaped to America. The Americans helped to give money to reconstruct her face

I think in our culture, and elsewhere, any violence to your wife is a crime to be punished.

Thanks to charity, this girl has a new life, a new future, trying to live without fear.