i travelled to doha, qatar, to meet with sohail shaheen, a member of the taliban peace negotiation teamior to 9/11 and the war on terror, he used to live in new york as the taliban's representative to the united nations. tell me about your time in the united states, you lived in flushing, queens — what did you think of new york? i liked the development, the technologies, the cities, the buildings, and also the sense of research and hard work and the american people, and also the media. so you could see a partnership with them? yes, sure. because i wanted and still want those things to happen to my people, to my country. so i think they could be good partners. for the last 15 years, shaheen and his family have lived in exile in doha. the lifestyle he leads here is miles away from the battlefields of afghanistan. if you were to return to kabul, how would you govern? there was in the past some mistakes that we have learned from because at that time we were new to the government. to stop education of women and girls. that is not our goal. of course, education is their right and it is much n