Plastic surgery in Afghanistan

The World

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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