international community s responsibility with regard to stability within its borders. of course, pakistan has been blamed and there s a lot of evidence to support this particularly by nato but also by the afghan government repeatedly for its long performance and the critics of pakistan will say this instability is a direct consequence of your malicious and maligned activitied over many decades. not just in terms of supporting the taliban. but also working with drug lords, warlords and trucking mafias, all of which has added to the long-term instability in afghanistan. pakistan would strategically counter that afghanistan s interest is to keep india out, the rivalry really defining particularly from the pakistani mentality their outlook on the whole world, kim. sam kiley, always appreciate
clarissa s report that the reality does not seem to match it. they fear at the hand of the taliban, those who worked with u.s. security forces, interpreters, i met one who currently is trying to evacuate his family, and hopefully get to kabul, because he fears taliban reprisal. so there are many groups of people in afghanistan who fear they will not be safe under stall la ban rule. kim. thanks, cyril vanier in london. still ahead, how it could impact the rights of women and children. i ll speak to the leader of women s rights for women until afghanistan. and we ll take a look at how the taliban takeover could affect neighbors countries on cnn newsroom. health officials tell some americans to get a third shot of the vaccine. we ll look at who they are. and why they need it, just ahead. plus, los angeles wants to
largest organization for women in afghanistan. she joins us from new york city. thank you so much. give us a sense on the ground for civilians in afghanistan right now? well, as you heard, the taliban are making rapid advances across afghanistan and have captured at least 15 cities. have effectively surrounded kabul. and it sounds like there s a question of whether a deal could be worked out in kabul. it has happened in a lot of other cities that have been taken in the past week. that s not to say there isn t heavy fighting in certain places. there certainly was in helmand and lashkar gah and fighting there is the possibility that kabul will either experience heavy fighting or that the leaders will work something out. and we know that war is unfair
so, we see that the afghan you know, groups are able to negotiate their way out of this into a peaceful solution at the local level. we would hope that it happened at the national level, which is why i personally went to doha to meet taliban a few years ago, and we formed a group, encouraging peace efforts, including afghan women, afghan from 9/11, family members as well as common defense which is an american veterans organization. because we do believe in diplomacy. we realize mistakes have been made and opportunities for diplomacy have been wasted. so i think what the international community can do is to press for those kinds of solutions. and to use the aid. and the fact that we know the country needs aid. no one who runs that country is going to survive as a government if it doesn t get the aid to run the country. and governance. we need to encourage good
to women and children because they re more vulnerable. and we know there have been hundreds of thousands of people displaced in the past couple months. but afghanistan has 3 million displaced people internally. and our organization has been working with these people, particularly in the northern provinces where we exist in the west, and a bit in the south. and, you know, just to tell you, the situation for civilians, it s a very scary time, obviously. there s so much change so rapidly. but we re being told that international ngos can function. that women can work. the taliban have told us this. they have had meeting in kundiz with folks that we know on the ground that can continue our operations and we hope, really are hopeful, that we can continue our work and that the