What business did this guy have taking his pregnant wife backpacking in a place like Afghanistan in the first place? He surely must have known what happens to Westerners - especially Western women - in the middle of a war zone like that. Not only was this not the smartest thing in the world, it's voluntary assumption of risk.  As for me, I agree with his father in law in the U.S. who is not at all pleased that his daughter went there at all with this intellectual titan.