When i looked at the email, i just couldnt even believe it. But after so many tears, so many years, and so many turns in her story i was like whoa. There are still more stunning twists to be revealed. Its amazing. Its the best gift ever. Lost and found. Hello. Welcome to dateline extra. A young girl was abducted at the age of four and raised by her kidnapper. For the next four decades she searched for her family, her name, and herself. Her story has an extraordinary ending and as it turns out, that ending was just the beginning. Here is keith morrison. Our story begins with this mother of a teenage daughter. A woman who had spent most of her life trying to figure out
was absent mostly. Long stretches away, punk wa. We would go see him because he was coming in from the navy, and so it was an exciting moment, and she would get us all dressed up, and it was the anticipation of going to the shipyard and having a lot of attention. I think as a child. The memories are how she survived it all
on the streets here, and many girls don t go to school. and there have been some reports of executions. but this taliban regime does feel different. 25 years ago, people were terrified of speaking out. now, they talk openly about wanting to leave. why would i live in here? and i myself believe i m a global citizen, so i would better leave to go to live in another piece of the earth. how would you get out? i don t know. there is a lot of ways, you know? are you scared to be saying these kind of things? somehow, but somehow not. so why shall i be scared, if there s all worse?
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the taliban 20 years ago, thousands of girls just like these have attended school. many went to university, got great jobs. but in recent months, of course, human rights groups have been documenting that women are being blocked or heavily dissuaded at least from getting an education in taliban-controlled areas. and if they do, it s religious studies only. as cnn s clarissa ward has reported, this could be the beginning of a rollback in all of those gains for women s rights that have been made over two decades. reporter: i ve been talking to some of the women in this room, and i promised that i wouldn t show any of their faces. but it s interesting because, you know, the taliban talks a lot about how it s changed and girls can go to school now. but i asked if any of these girls would be going to school, and i was told, absolutely not. girls don t go to school. and when i said, why don t girls
school now, but i asked if any of these girls would be going to school and i was told absolutely not, girls don t go to school. when i said why don t girls go to school. they said taliban says it s bad. here, what the taliban says goes. this is now what afghanistan s future looks like. far from what the u.s. once envisioned and what sew many afghans dreamed of as the taliban pushes on towards an all but certain victory. clarissa ward, cnn, gazni province, afghanistan. afghanistan is known as the graveyard of empires. while president biden inherited the war there, did he also inherit a withdrawal plan doomed to fail? we re going to discuss with military and foreign policy experts next.