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Former Pakistan foreign minister hopes women will be a part of Taliban government
We spoke to Hina Rabbani Khar, who is a former foreign minister of Pakistan and asked her what role is Pakistan playing in the region?
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Afghanistan: Protesters take to the streets to challenge Taliban rule
In Afghanistan, protesters have defied the Taliban for a second day, taking to the streets in several cities, waving the country’s national flag in a challenge to the militants’ rule.
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How Taliban takeover looks to UK-based Afghans
For Afghans living here, the events of the last two weeks have been traumatic. We went to meet Dr Waheed Arian, who spent his childhood in Afghanistan in the middle of the Soviet conflict. His family fled during the fighting. We also spoke to Hammasa Kohistani, an Afghan model who moved to the UK when…
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Afghanistan: Johnson faces criticism from Tory MPs after Taliban takeover
Boris Johnson faced angry criticism from his own backbenchers, as parliament met for an emergency debate on Afghanistan. In the Commons, which was packed for the first time since the start of the pandemic, he denied the government had not been prepared for the sheer speed of the Taliban takeover, while Labour accused him of…
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‘The Taliban have a good PR, but they haven’t changed’ – Afghan NGO executive
Pashtana Durrani runs the charity Learn in Kandahar which focuses on getting girls into education. She has moved location a number of times to keep safe as the Taliban have taken one region after another in Afghanistan. She spoke with Jon Snow about the heightened sense of fear felt by people in her community. ‘People…
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Afghanistan: three dead as Taliban open fire on protesters
Taliban fighters have fired warning shots and attacked people with batons to break up a protest in the eastern city of Jalalabad, leaving several people dead or injured. There’s been more chaos outside the airport in the capital Kabul, as thousands of people tried to flee the country with one report claiming several people were…
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What will Taliban rule mean for Afghan women?
The first iteration of the Taliban saw a brutally repressive regime for all people, but for women especially.
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Afghanistan: Taliban promises peace in first press conference but what comes next?
In a surreal press conference beamed around the world earlier, the Taliban stated that all Afghans would be safe and all women would have a right to education in accordance with Sharia law. What those promises mean in reality is far less clear.
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Afghans relocated to UK fear for their families under Taliban rule
When the decision to begin the withdrawal from Afghanistan was announced in June, the government said it would rapidly accelerate applications made under its Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy – many by former interpreters for British forces.
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Biden under fire over ease of Taliban takeover after US troop withdrawal
Much of the blame for the fall of Afghanistan is being laid at the door of the Biden administration.
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Taliban is ‘not the same Taliban as the past’, says author Abdullah Anas
We spoke to Abdullah Anas. He’s a former mujahideen, who fought alongside Osama bin Laden against the Russians, but split with him when bin Laden formed Al-Qaeda.
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Afghanistan: Is today’s Taliban different from the one ousted after 9/11?
The Taliban are reported to have a saying: “You have the watches, we have the time”. They have waited patiently to return to power in Afghanistan, and for the patience and will of their enemies to run out. But have they changed in that time?
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If the Taliban ‘do behave in a certain way, there is a route to them being recognised’, says Armed Forces minister
We spoke to James Heappey, who’s the minister for the Armed Forces, and asked him how he responded when he saw the chaotic scenes at Kabul airport.
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Afghanistan: Several people reported killed at Kabul airport as Afghans try to flee Taliban takeover
It’s a chilling image – dozens of people so desperate to escape Afghanistan that they cling to a US plane as it moves along the runway.
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Afghanistan: Has US and UK withdrawal led to Taliban rise?
Operation Enduring Freedom the Americans called it.