others were, women should be treated fairly, we have just heard there others were, women should be treated fairly, we havejust heard there in the report how things have gone backwards for women, all of the spaces that were opened up for them for the last 20 years have now closed. and the third was that their government should be inclusive, should include all ethnicities. afghanistan is made up of a number of different ethnic groups, including the hasras, for example. that has not happened. quite recently, the cia only a few weeks ago carried out a drone strike on kabul that killed the al-qaeda leader, which has prompted a lot of people to wonder whether al-qaeda has reconstituted itself, this is the terrorist group that launched the terrorist group that launched the 9/11 attacks. but a white house report that came out in the last 24 hours has concluded it hasn t. but it hasn t changed the other things. thank you very much indeed, frank. sir salman rushdie s family has praised the brave
rights, with girls largely banned from secondary schools. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet has been to see how the afghan people have adapted to life under the new regime. it s a man s world. afghanistan is a conservative country. but the rules are now set by the ultraconservative taliban. spaces which had opened up for women have now been slammed shut. we met three generations of women whose lives speak loudly about their world. many are afraid. they don t want to be identified. this woman used to be a senior official in the finance ministry. last year the taliban told her, stay at home. a man would take herjob. i worked for more than 17 years in the finance ministry.
what mother wouldn t worry? what child wouldn t weep? a new generation takes shape in a new afghanistan. the taliban say the rights of boys and girls within islam will be respected. but there is growing fear that girls who were learning to lead will be left far behind. lyse doucet, bbc news, kabul. our security correspondent frank gardnerjoins us now. good morning, frank. we have heard how the taliban takeover has affected afghanistan, but what about its impact on the rest of the world? well, one year ago today, there was that horrendous, ignominious retreat, that withdrawal from
freedom, whether it is teenage girls not being able to go to secondary school in most of the country, whether it is people who are politically active not feeling free to criticise the taliban in public knowing that they risk arrest, torture or even death. there are others and it is important to remember them as well, who live, for example, in conservative villages in the south of the country, not far from where i am now in the city of kandahar, and for these people, they feel like they have regained a sense of freedom because they lived along the rural front lines of the war. now that the fighting is ended, they are able to do something as simple as plough theirfields are able to do something as simple as plough their fields without fear of being caught in the crossfire of a gun battle. what unites afghans is concerned about this ongoing economic crisis. for the last 20 years this country was propped up by huge levels of foreign spending. money is still coming in but far less than befo
afghanistan where the western backed government collapsed, and thousands left the country in a chaotic departure. and strangely, at about that time, just days later, the cia chief flew into kabul said there are three conditions to you having normal relations with the rest of the world, having the flow of aid and money, and those are, do not become a base for international terrorism. the 9/11 attacks that sent planeloads of terrorists to new york and washington was planned from afghanistan, underthe and washington was planned from afghanistan, under the taliban. that s why the west intervened back in 2001. that was one condition. the others were, women should be treated fairly, we havejust heard