what to do with them all our ways we can make a difference by choosing smart new solutions over steam set in our ways global ideas, environmental series included 3000 on d, w, and on the city dublin use asia coming up to date education for afghan women under taliban rule, after the 6 months pause the thought about allow women to return to some universities in the country. is this the face of a new reform to thought yvonne or just window dressing to any international concerns about women's rights? plus the party bond security headache, regular tax based on the state, militant or challenging volleyball games they have made of grandest on c for guns.

ah, i british manager, welcome to the w news asia. glad you could join us for the 1st time since seizing power in a broadest on last august, the taliban has reopened some public universities and allowed some female students to attend the militant save. women must remain segregated from their male counterparts in line with that interpretation of sharia law and can only study subjects approved by the taliban. the international community has made equal access to education for women. one of the conditions of unfreezes, of god is tons, assets overseas. now some members of the taliban say the move shows they have now fulfilled this condition and that the us should lift a sanctions against them. what was that we have provided, complete security. we have respected the rights of women,

yet the woman was appointed as the head of mala lies maternity hospital just a few days ago. alissa schools are open and universities are opening. and now the united nations in the united states have no excuse to continue sanctions against us . is that am i the vanishing of by then? i misha. bye. get the heavy. my bye. right, let's get more on this or from dr. eleanor zane, or she is director of the southwest east shared regional program at the german thinktank. the conrad added our stiff tongue doctor is in a welcome. you just had one taliban governor there, or is this reopening of some universities for some women? just a tally bon ploy to get access to international funds. do you think well, we have to understand that the taliban never officially prohibited girls or women education and not even women to go to work. they have even proclaimed that during the whole. do have peace process that women and girls can go to school and,

and work, but they put their conditions and i think they may conditions quite difficult and sometimes quite vague. so to give you one example, they put the condition of gender sex separation. but they can, of course they can always argue that the situation and, and conditions are not yet there to let women go to school. so i think we have to take a taliban by their words and proceed from there. but do we really need to take thought on brother was because just based on the words, as you pointed out, they are in favor of educating women and girls. but the conditions that existent have gone on, or at least under them, imply that women and girls can't get education vivia, talking of are universities only in 6 out of $34.00 provinces. and we haven't really seen any plan to make this a make education available for women. so should we really be taking the thought of on, on their words?

i wouldn't say the taliban are in favor of girls education. definitely. they have a strong resentment against that. or some objections against that, but we have to counter the taliban also by religious arguments because they act on conviction. and so there is no religious argumentation against women education. and that's why we should take them by their words. because that's the way how they argue. and but on the other hand, of course you can see we can use all the whole diplomatic to kids that we have. we can try with political conditions. we can try with economic pressure. but i think the taliban will not be much pressured by the other. mean, so we should try also this kind of dialogue or talks and negotiations on that. but how far will that good given that the dollar by my convinced essentially that women in many ways are inferior to man, have

a 2nd class in society. and education for them is perhaps not at all with education for men. we have to say very realistic and i think now we have to work with a new reality that we have seen. and unfortunately the taliban are in reality if you like it or not. and i see the only way forward to at least to negotiate some minimum standards. some minimum guarantees for women is to proceed that way to keep the channels open and demanding concessions and taking them by their words. because i don't see there's no military option there on the table in any more and also not in the future and economically, politically, yes, maybe we can put pressure on them, but we have to play it very wisely. do you think the international funds that have been frozen tribute used to the thought of on at least, i mean,

from my perspective, i think yes, we have to release certain amount and it has already happened to decrease the humanitarian crisis. but i think it's we have to play very wisely and not to release them all of a sudden because it's the only on asset that we have in our hands and the taliban need. they know they also pick medic and they know to survive. they would need some kind of international donors to survive or economy and politically in the future. all right, we'll leave it there for the time being. thanks so much for joining us, dr. and in all xeno from the german thinking, the conrad added our stiff, don't finish on with them. thank you. and in addition to education for women, that balaban also promised security for off guns, but fundamentalist outfits like the slum extrude are putting the promise to the test on a daily basis. here hangs over the eastern afghan city of gelata. bad

as night falls inhabitants rush to get home before the shooting starts. once a fringe fundamentalist group islamic status stepped up attacks across afghanistan . since the taliban took control of the country last year, especially in anger, har, province, the taliban, or checking vehicles in the trading hub. the taliban are playing down the threat of the group, also known as dash. with what days mr. dice does not exist. it doesn't exist because it does not have a base or a place here to declare its government to the do not even a single piece of land in afghanistan is under their control. look of always functionality in the streets of july, the bad taliban fighters tell of regular attacks. analysts estimate there have been nearly 100 attacks since mid september. nearly all the talking to taliban. the bloodiest was a suicide bomb blasted cobble airport in august,

as tens of thousands of afghans tried to evacuate. over $200.00 people were killed in the attack, including 13 us service members. islamic state are believed to have about 2 to 4000 fighters in afghanistan compared 280000 taliban say that the violence against taliban has been on the rise. but exactly how much of how much is ice k p. responsible for that remains . it's difficult to say, ah, the chief ideological difference between the 2 islamist groups is that the taliban wanted in afghanistan, free of foreign forces. i asked once in islamic caliphate stretching from turkey to pakistan and beyond. suspected taliban reprisals have seen dozens of corpses showing up mysteriously. a number of bodies were found last month along

a canal and jalal about the un accuses the taliban of secretly eliminating 50 suspected ins. members in manga har non garza stronghold for the selfish community . a fundamentalist branch of sony islam the taliban have responded quite but by targeting the selfish community and i've got a son and they continue to do that. and that has not only talked fear within the community, but potentially could also drive disenfranchise telephone to join the ranks of life . but so pervasive is the culture of fear in july about that. no one dares to speak out about the reprisals. and from all this, i'm joined by corresponding in is tumble ali. how serious is the threat posed by islamic state called us on to the taliban? the biggest start to talk about is really in terms of their p r. upper. and it's

very because the one thing that the bond said that when they come to power that they can deliver will be peace and order. and what we've seen is the opposite of that. we've seen that, you know, crime hasn't necessarily gone down. and most importantly, attacks claimed by the so called the some states have not ended at all they and, and a lot of ways they've gotten worse spread out across the country. you know, they, they attacked areas and condos and cannot in places that normally they wouldn't have attacked. so really now it's up to the polar bond to prove that they can finally deliver the safety and security that they've been promising all these years . and that they can basically not end up in the same situation as their republic, which was unable to really hold back an insurgency or terrorist network. however, you saw this all about in the past and really actually provide security. you know, now it's up to them to deliver on the promise. it's interesting, you go, you talked about a threat to the p r app, but at this was the probably about it because we just made it

a board in which it's all about an official came the stomach state doesn't exist and have gotten on. i wonder therefore if that's the pilot bonds way of saying they don't know how to deal with the threat from the as hilarious because that is the exact statement. the former government made in 2018 or 19. they made very similar statement saying that they have completely eradicated the so called bombing state. and then for years after that, they continued to stage attacks and called ball angela bod and other cities. so it's funny because it seems like they're, they're, you know, operating off the same playbook as former republican that way. where does that leave the people of god, nathan ali, i mean, how assured can they be, especially in places like a lot of bob that taliban government can provide them security? well, if you look at it in, for instance, the city of angela bond is currently considered one of the least safe in the country. in part because of you know,

mafia and crime networks and things like that. but also specifically because of the threat posed by the so called state, because it has always been one of the city of jobs always been one of the primary target. and it's continued to this day. you know, those attacks are not letting up and there are still reports of fighting between the 2 groups in and around all the bod. so it's really not helping, you know, like they said, you know, the number one thing. i mean, when i was still in the emerett, i remember i was talking to paula official. he's like, look, we've delivered peace and we've delivered security in order to you. and i said, well, no, you haven't. because look at what happened at the airport right before you know, the end of the occupation, the end of the withdrawal, when you know, the so called the front, they claimed a massive, massive attack, you know, on the outside perimeter of the air for work. now people were waiting, you know, and they blame that on the u. s, saying the u. s. failed, and their security efforts, and that was not. but then after that we saw some condos. we saw the tax model,

we saw the tax and we saw tax and fighting and all of them are gone and other cities. so they really have yet to deliver on that primary promise. or you let the reporting from ms. dawn will that, that's it for the speakers, but more from the region on our website i did have a dot com forward slash asia as ever you can follow us on facebook and twitter as well. and we'll see you back on monday. so by the like dusty boots, muddy ties, and drones, we deliver urgent life saving boxes. we give off everything to reach those who need us the most. every books feeding their futures boxes with hope of life saving food and of so much more down roads with no names. we fearlessly deliver relentless, you know, a promise to make everything very special not just next day. but

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