reports suggest a man opened fire during a family dispute. at 10pm, tina deheley will be here with a full round up of the day s news. but before that, a bracing dose of hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. a year on from the re imposition of taliban rule, afghanistan is facing a humanitarian calamity. half the population is facing serious food insecurity, more than 1 million children are at risk from acute malnutrition. as for the taliban, well, they seem focused on snuffing out opposition and imposing strict controls on women and girls. my guest is former first vice president of afghanistan, now a seniorfigure in the national resistance front, amrullah saleh. is internal resistance viable when afghans are starving? amrullah saleh, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it is a year, mr saleh, since the taliban swept into kabul and toppled the government of which you were a part. would you acknowledge that this past year has been a year of failure from your point of vi
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In a resolution. All this comes against the backdrop of a significant surge in violence. Dozens of afghans are being killed every day. The conflict has resulted in acute poverty and hunger. There are fears that once all International Forces leave, the taliban might be back in power in the country. I met afghanistans Vice President Amrullah Saleh and began by asking him if this was the right time for us troops to be leaving. We believe the mission is not accomplished, but if they decide to leave, we respect their decision. But you wouldnt be asking for them to stay . Not necessarily, we would ask them to respect their agreements with us, they have signed a Strategic Partnership agreement with us and they have
signed a bilateral Security Agreement with us. Based on that, they have to give notice to the Afghan Government, and work with the Afghan Government on a proper and disciplined exit. What do you mean when you say that theyre leaving before accomplishing the objectives they set out
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Exclusive: Delegation at UN is a holdover from pre-Taliban administration, and will have to argue that the Islamist group’s hostile takeover of Kabul amounts to ‘special circumstances’