Reza Gul lost a significant amount of blood in the attack and was rushed to hospital in the northwest of the country on Monday.
A spokesman for the governor of Faryab province said she would need reconstructive surgery and arrangements are being made to transfer her to Turkey.It was not immediately clear why her husband, 25-year-old Mohammad Khan, attacked the mother-of-one.
Khan is believed to have recently come back from Iran.
He had repeatedly beaten his wife since returning, according to Maymana hospital director Fawzia Salimi, despite promising Taliban leaders he would stop.
He had also taken another wife, aged just seven, according to Ms Salimi.
Police and the intelligence agency are searching for Khan, who has fled the village, said the governor's spokesman, Ahmad Jawed Bedar.
Taliban gunmen are also hunting him and say he will be "dealt with according to Sharia law", according to a spokesman for the group.
Sky News
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