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Forces on the ground, or used predator drones to push back the taliban or speeding up the withdrawal until every american was out, every afghan ally was out, all our military equipment was out, none of that happened and you had months watching this unfold. now blinken seems less concerned with the americans left behind. he s more concerned with the lack of diversity and inclusion in the taliban s new government. when the taliban was in power the last time, girls couldn t go to school, women couldn t go to work, they were subjugated to men. young girls were taken as ex-and wives to the taliban fighters. do you think we have changed? i doubt it s. yesterday the taliban named a new interim government. despite thinking that the new government would be inclusive it
Happen. the last time the taliban was in power in the 1990s, women weren t allowed to work. girls couldn t go to school. even now, they defend punishment is like lashings and stoning adulterers to death. today, you do see some women about an kabul, but few of them. many are too afraid to step outside. many worry that while the taliban do promise women will be able to work and get an education, the group will grow increasingly strict when at the international focus comes to an end. anisa kadri, bbc news. let s speak now to mina s list founder and executive director tanya henderson who is an international human rights lawyer. mina s list promotes political participation and women s rights. it has been working in afghanistan since 2014. ta nya s in california. a very warm welcome to the programme. you can tell us what
It s for peace, it s for people, it s for inclusivity and tolerance and acceptance and moderation. and he s being backed by the country s first vice president, amrullah saleh, who now considers himself the legitimate caretaker president of afghanistan. we will not. let me be very clear. we will not accept clerical dictatorship in my country. we make peace but the peace should not mean surrender to a group with massive record of human rights violation, massacre of people, you name it. that will not happen. the last time the taliban were in power in the 1990s, women weren t allowed to work, girls couldn t go to school. even now, they defend punishments like lashings and stoning adulterers to death. today, you do see some women out and about in kabul, but fewer than before. many are too afraid to step outside.
Women weren t allowed to work and the girls couldn t go to school. punishments were brutal. today, under taliban rule, you still do see some women out and about in kabul, though significantly fewer than before. many are simply too afraid to step outside. so far, they haven t been ordered to wear the burqa or to stay at home unless accompanied by a man, but no one s sure if that will last. i ve been trying to speak to any of the women here, but all of them are extremely reluctant to go on camera. that is not something entirely new, but one woman did tell me while she was deeply anxious about the future she didn t feel safe saying anything critical about the taliban. even without new laws being imposed, fear is changing the way many women dress. no one s buying jeans any more, says this shopkeeper. instead, they are buying