kamila sidiqi in germany, welcome to hardtalk. hello, thank you so much. you re welcome. it is a great pleasure to have you on the programme. now, if we d been talking to you a week ago, we would have been talking to you in kabul. now you re in safe haven in bonn, germany. tell me exactly what prompted you to flee kabul, and how did you do it? i was in kabul and my trip to london was on 20, my ticket was on 20 next week. suddenly, this. i heard a lot of the news that most of the people left kabul. and in the night, i received
will look like, but it is clear many afghans are fearful. my guest is kamila sidiqi, a trail blazing women s activist, entrepreneur, and former government official in kabul. is her cause lost? and where does the blame lie? kamila sidiqi in germany, welcome to hardtalk. hello, thank you so much. you re welcome. it is a great pleasure to have you on the programme. now, if we d been talking to you a week ago, we would have been talking to you in kabul.
i think it s very important to help them right now, that these people should leave from kabul. but, for the future of the country, it s not a solution that everybody left the country. i wish the international community and the world can support afghanistan to bring peace there and people can stay in their own country. kamila, i m sure you, like all of us, watched 2a hours ago, the senior taliban spokesman, zabiullah mujahid, guarantee respect for the rights of women. he said, and i m quoting him, we are committed to the rights of women under the system of sharia. there ll be nothing against women in our rule. if they continue to live according to sharia, we will be happy, they will be happy. what was your response to those words? as you know, we are muslim and we respect a lot to our sharia, and also to islam.
i m looking to find that president where is that president? believe me, because since three years that i was working with her, the corruption and fighting with corruption was the first the first things that we focused a lot. kamila, i don t know whether you had a chance in germany to watchjoe biden address the american people, but his message to them was simple that america was no longer prepared to spend blood and treasure propping up an afghan government and an afghan military that was no longer prepared to fight for its own survival. i just wonder what you make of what the americans have done. if i think honestly, my expectation was very high from america because, as a younger girl when they came to afghanistan and the situation changed and we got a lot of support and we had a lot of achievement from the support of america.
he said, and i m quoting him, we are committed to the rights of women under the system of sharia. there ll be nothing against women in our rule. if they continue to live according to sharia, we will be happy, they will be happy. what was your response to those words? as you know, we are muslim and we respect a lot to our sharia, and also to islam. and the women of afghanistan, most of them are educated, and they know that we respect islam and we will be very happy if they gave a chance for women to work and go to university and study and give their rights, that god gave us this right. i think it s very good news. kamila, sorry to interrupt, but can you take a single word said by a taliban spokesman seriously, given your long experience in the country and your experience of living under taliban rule before?