Fawzia koofi, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. It s a great pleasure to have you in the hardtalk studio. It is now three years since taliban rule was restored in afghanistan. They have just passed a raft of new so called vice and virtue measures in kabul. Tell me about the impact of those measures, as you see it. You have put it very rightly after the, you know, three years since the taliban regime was restored. This is the right way to put it, because many people think, say, um, three years since the taliban victory, since they have taken power. Ijust believe it s three years since afghanistan was handed over to taliban because of the moral defeat by all of us, especially international community. Now, the new law. . . You re talking about the decision led by the united states of the western nations who d been backing the afghan government to withdraw their troops, which, of course, then led to the collapse of the afghan national army and the taliban moving back in to kabu
We change the wind direction, We bring the winds down from the northWest, and so things are going to feel very different. Temperatures, if anything, looks set to drop back to values below the average for the time of year, and it will still be quite unsettled. ShoWers or longer spells of rain and often breezy. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. To be female in afghanistan is to be condemned to a life without visibility, agency or rights. The Taliban Regime requires women to conceal their faces, bodies, even their voices in public. They must never look at a man outside theirfamily, nor ever sing or read aloud. The Un Secretary general calls it systemic gender apartheid. But still it continues. And still, taliban officials conduct a dialogue with international counterparts. My guest is fawzia koofi, former Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Parliament. What is the right international approach to afghanistan . Fawzia koofi, Welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Its a great pleasure
Approach to afghanistan? fawzia koofi, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. It s a great pleasure to have you in the hardtalk studio. It is now three years since taliban rule was restored in afghanistan. They have just passed a raft of new so called vice and virtue measures in kabul. Tell me about the impact of those measures, as you see it. You have put it very rightly after the, you know, three years since the taliban regime was restored. This is the right way to put it, because many people think, say, um, three years since the taliban victory, since they have taken power. Ijust believe it s three years since afghanistan was handed over to taliban because of the moral defeat by all of us, especially international community. Now, the new law. . . You re talking about the decision led by the united states of the western nations who d been backing the afghan government to withdraw their troops, which, of course, then led to the collapse of the afghan national army and the talib
for: if you re obsessed with crime, it s the perfect time you ll get off scott free in every dem city and for all you squares out there stay above the fray let summarize it in a roundup way it s crime roundup thursday . greg: it s crime roundup thursday. just flows right off the tongue there. first let s go to the view. where i d like to report a murder. i was fired from the five. i had a very toxic relationship with another of the cast members. which one? i may get there, i may get there. okay. check. also i thought that it was very unfair that i was not judged objectively in our disputes but rather he was always favored. hmm. no, no, no, poor thing. in lieu of flowers we sent up a gofundme page to get him a barber. but i credit the view for finally finding a guest with a bigger mustache than their panelists. they re a hairy bunch. on to california where dems just blocked a bill to make child trafficking a serious felony. why would you do that