Since then, the Taliban say they have looked at some 355,000 cases. Most were criminal cases - an estimated 40% are disputes over land and a further 30% are family issues including divorce, like Nazdana's. Nazdana’s divorce ruling was dug out after the BBC got exclusive access to the back offices of the Supreme Court in the capital, Kabul.

The BBC, following the case of Bibi Nazdana, reported that the Taliban is invalidating divorces granted by the Afghan court - forcing divorced child brides to return to their previous marital status.

The Taliban is forcing divorced child brides to return to their adult former husbands, according to a BBC report on Sunday. This directive comes despite these girls having been legally divorced by the Afghan government.