Plastic surgery in Afghanistan used to be limited to those who had been victims of war brutality or other acts of violence such as acid attacks. But today, a growing number of Afghan women are going under the knife for cosmetic procedures. Some are changing their faces to look like a different ethnic group. The World’s Shirin Jaafari meets the surgeon who helps women look like a they have a different ethnicity.
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