life and business and culture. if you exclude them, the wheels of the economy will grind to a halt. so they re in a conundrum. the general direction of travel so far in terms of the political structures in afghanistan are giving a lot of people cause for concern because the caretaker interim government is hardline, almost completely pashtu, represents none of the inclusivity that the taliban have been saying unly they wanted to address. no former members of the government, for example. similarly, we ve seen a kind of forward and backward movement on the education of women, which is a lot more than symbolic, of course. it is absolutely critical to the people who for 20 years have been educating women and girls, and for whom the future of afghanistan really depends on that trajectory. so it s being seen not just as an issue for women and girls, but also a litmus test for the