host: ramita navai is our guest here this morning. she will take your questions and your comments about what you have heard so far. we have divided the lines regionally. begin calling in this morning so we can get to your thoughts on what you are hearing. i want to show our viewers a little bit from this documentary. "afghanistan undercover." >> wealthy businessmen met with a secretly. he said a few weeks earlier his 19-year-old cousin had been forced to marry a powerful taliban commander, 40 years older than her. >> [speaking a foreign language] >> the taliban commander, he said, had arrived at the girl's home with some of his men and demanded her father's consent. [speaking a foreign language] >> those who witnessed such forced marriages and abductions say they follow a pattern. [speaking a foreign language] >> they agreed to talk to us if we concealed his identity. he, himself, had a confrontation with a group of taliban who were take ago girl ed marriage. taking a girl ed marriage. [speaking a foreign language] host: the documenta

host: ramita navai, who is marian? guest: she's a young woman from the west of the country who went missing. we heard that many young girls and women were going missing in this western city. we wanted to investigate. we found out about her case. and we spoke to her family. now it took a while for the family to figure out what had happened to her. and she had been imprisoned. she had been taken by taliban intelligence agents and put into prison for so-called immorality, moral crimes. for being in a taxi with a man good she was unrelated to. and most worryingly, there was absolutely no official record of her in prison. who host: she was in a taxi with a man not related to her, but it was her friend's father. what were they doing? guest: they had found out that all of her friends had also gone missing and had been taken by taliban intelligence officers. they said if they turned up at the police station they would be able to help them. and they turned up to try to help them and were taken. charged with the same crime. immo

ramita navai., first of all i would say that the countries where it is not allowed as a practice, just as in the old testament there are lots of crazy rules about what is allowed not allowed, same with islam. and it's how governments interpret it. i would say that's not the case in all countries. i would also say that the child marriage we are talking about is not the traditional child marriage where parents allow, usually because they are actually property, their children to be married off. in this case it is forced marriage which is abduction. so taliban fighters abducting women and children which is different. host: frank, bayside, new york. caller: hi, good morning. my comment is that change has to come from within. and here in the united states we have our own problems. women weren't allowed to vote. they were down on the peg. they fought. and look forward to now. we have a president, vice president that's a woman. women on the supreme court. even black women. you can't force them to change. r

. >> narrator: undercover correspondent ramita navai finds those who have been punished by the regime>> we covered some cases of women who were imprisoned. they were being held without charge. >> narrator: and the defiant voices fighting back... >> these women say they're risking their lives just by being here. >> narrator: now on frontline "afghanistan undercover." >> frontlines made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. additional support is provided by the abrams foundation, committed to excellence in journalism... the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more at macfound.org. park foundation dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues... and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. and additional support from koo and patricia yuen, committed to bridging cultural differences in our communities. and suzanne and mark colodny. ♪ ♪ >> ramita navai: as the taliban took po

ramita navai also questioned the deputy spokesman for afghanistan's taliban-run government, bilal karimiave spoken to young women who told me when they were arrested, taliban officers used tasers to electrocute them. >> many people may make such a claim, however, they may have other motors -- motives. >> i've also spoken former female prisoners who said some were told if they married, they would be released. liu investigate that? >> i won't comment on that. it is completely basis. >> i've spoken to some families who to me -- amy: that is the deputy spokesperson for afghanistan's taliban government bilal karimi. speaking in a pbs document recall " afghanistan undercover." zahra nader, your response? >> the taliban, they never accept the truth. for the past year, several, several dozens of reports like you and human rights watch. the taliban responses, this is not true. the only thing they want to say is they want the whole world who believe the taliban are telling the truth and everybody else is trying to lie. i want to very much emphasize that whatever the taliban are saying is not accep