71.   She agreed to an arranged marriage her mother pushed, to a man with a shady reputation.

72.   She nevertheless advocated arranged marriage only when the couple is allowed to make their own decision.

73.   She is also the daughter of an orthodox rabbi and faces an arranged marriage.

74.   Some are teen-agers looking for work, but others are toddlers used as props by smugglers or young people fleeing abuses like forced recruitment as soldiers or arranged marriages.

75.   Sorgul has already found a new husband in a nearby village through an arranged marriage.

76.   Some still believe in arranged marriages.

77.   Still, arranged marriage is thriving among the most modern Indians.

78.   Such programs are not uncommon and, like any arranged marriage, they are gambles.

79.   That view was echoed by Anne Monius, an assistant professor at the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Virginia who lectures on arranged marriage.

80.   The arranged marriage was part of a pattern of trafficking in increasingly desperate Afghan women, said Ms. Shorish-Shamley.