thank. you. coming up on the program the price of peace. talks. about. on stage.

it's good to have you with us we begin today in. the. province it looks like any ordinary city in south asia traffic people going about their daily business. on the streets soldiers manning checkpoints all. sixteen. over the. those present at this meeting may have the representatives from the taliban and the united states are meeting in doha to discuss the redraw of u.s. troops from afghanistan but absent from the talks is the afghan government but thought about through this to speak to them and there's no commitment that they

will in the future for now though the taliban are clearly a key player in the future of about. malawi calum again once wielded enormous power he led the enforcement of taliban regulations during their rule of afghanistan from one thousand nine hundred six to two thousand and one now he's hoping for a comeback as the taliban and the us hold peace talks after years of guerrilla warfare the taliban want to be in charge again callum again says that's long overdue. to see that the fans want to live in the shari'a law again about how a holy war wasn't in vain that. all afghans want to shari'a law over again not just the holy warriors from the taliban. afghanistan under taliban rule movie theaters destroyed films burnt everything

considered western was strictly forbidden men were forbidden from shaving their beards women were forced to wear burkas infractions were met with severe punishment prison or death by stoning kalimba doing today has a different spin on this brutal oppression. so we never punished anyone better than those people advice and if we threatened anyone because he didn't have a big it wasn't because we wanted to be it's one of god's commandments for men as covering up for women. he wants to be a law must accept these rules. afghanistan is a conservative islamic society but the country has changed in recent years more than half the population is under the age of eighteen most young afghans want the war to end but they reject the idea of others telling them how to live their lives . at least there isn't censorship of the internet not yet anyway.

i'm afraid if a taliban is not just the internet we would lose all of our freedoms. the taliban present themselves as more moderate than before allowing calum again appears on talk shows to promote his interpretation of islam but western analysts consider this a charm offensive not a sign of long term change. in lives lytle to secure individual and democratic rights this is doubtful with the taliban they haven't presented any clear ideas about how they see the future of afghanistan. compromises are inevitable to end the war with the taliban these are likely to come at a high price for more we have a thought for. us of was forced to flee afghanistan in the eighty's and now lives in germany thank you so much for coming in to speak to us we just sat in a minute just for the benefit of our viewers i want to replay

a sound byte from the report that you just played. we never punished anyone but then people advice and if we threatened anyone because he didn't have a big it wasn't because we wanted to be the one of god's commandments for men as covering up for women those who want to be a law must accept these rules. you need to accept these rules if you're going to be living in the us on hearing this are you are sure that women's rights will be protected if the. the thing is that at the moment nobody is nobody really knows what's happening there are no clarity there's no clear consensus there's no clear statement saying that this is how it's going to be because the afghan people are not present in those closed door talks or i don't know what to call them because they're not supposed to be peace talks to be to be honest they're supposed to lead to peace talks now the negotiation the negotiating team that is going to be

composed of the different stakeholders that's going to be the key and that i think once we get a little bit of clarity from both sides of the sphere then we can say something and these are all assumptions that we're all making at the moment but of course there's a there's a clear concern. that we will lose some sort of progress that we've made in the last seventeen years we're hoping not to but this is the main concern for those that live in afghanistan and women's rights i say this again and again women's rights is not the only thing that is at stake we're talking about. democracy as a general and as a general whole that is what we are concerned about the constitution the constitution the mechanisms constitutional mechanisms for example if you touch the constitution then there are clauses that if we touch those then it would be illegal to even advocate for certain things within the country that would go against the law you spoke about stakeholders in a promise on one of the stakeholders of course the women of the progress of the made in the. more than three thousand of them assembled in february and the

demanded that their concerns that insist be represented that any negotiations that happened do you think those demands would have an impact on any negotiations it would be up to the government of afghanistan when they do make make that committee the negotiation team to include that it was that over three thousand five hundred correct exactly we could go to be honest. and there are there is a declaration that is that has specific fifteen recommendations and these recommendations are not only based on this consensus but rather on many consensuses that have been that have been made in the last few months and last year in august on august fifteenth there was a fifteen thousand over fifteen thousand women they shared their their their their their prospects already shared their their thoughts and what they wanted in this in this possible negotiation and i say this again and again and yes there's a there's a desperate need to finish this war to end this war but that does not mean that

peace will come at a sustainable peace will come and last we take care of we take all of the stakeholders and everybody into the same pot it would never work and this is something that you have focused on yourself in the film that you made we the remain of a small teaser for our viewers we just sort of believe that we continue speaking off the. same. i'm going to tell you the story with. a privileged and happy night in the new district of kabul afghanistan sunday. which are absolutely nothing to do with your families nor with any afghans living in peace and acceptance of all cultures and religions. father's life can force that a little girl and her family to walk out of there is thirty seven and dangerous true and sort. of consistent. and i am.

and of course it was a magnet to five of the flat she's sitting here with me today a mother of. if the taliban daughter do you think many women would make the same journey that you made all those years ago. again it is really an assumption that we would break if we answer that question without knowing what is happening behind those closed doors it is very very difficult to make an assumption and. women will have to we will have to come together solidarity is extremely important at the moment although as you know there been some articles that have come out and some very condescending wording of you know putting the onus on women and in this these articles saying that for the we have done we have done everything that we could for the betterment of women but it's all up to us it has always been up to us afghans all want the withdrawal of the troops we want the international community to assist

us however but at what cost democracy and democratic ways and mechanisms that have been put in place way before these forty years cannot be touched and it shouldn't be touched and the only the only stakeholders right now that are fighting for these things are the civil societies the civil society organizations and women's groups and the voices of these women have to be heard the voices of these groups have to be heard and it has to be all inclusive when it comes to that team and hopefully by . shining we thank you very much for coming and thank you very much for having me here from dialogue to monologue it's perhaps the world's best known piece of feminist eve ensler the vagina monologues premiered in new york more than two decades ago this week the first of a bernese language production open the minima the play breaking new ground in a country where sexuality and women's bodies are still very much to who topics. it takes courage to say vagina out loud in myanmar. never mind talking

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