The Taliban’s track record of female suppression has left many women’s rights activists with almost no reason to trust their promises.
ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz explains what role the U.S. has played in Afghanistan in recent years and why the Taliban wants to take over the country.LONDON -- “Pick up the phone right now, call Kabul and ask the girls to be released immediately,” Hoda Khamosh, an Afghanistan woman’s rights activist shouted at the Taliban's acting foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, in Oslo, Norway, last week.
The invitation led to different reactions from Afghanistan’s various women’s rights activists, with some welcoming it as a chance for Afghan-to-Afghan negotiations. Others felt that Taliban rule should not be normalized by holding such meetings and casted doubts on the trustworthiness of their promises.
“Without urgent action, almost one million children could be severely malnourished in the coming weeks. That is half of all children under the age of 5,”“We were discussing how the money can come to Afghanistan and help with opening schools, opening offices, creating jobs and making the economy wheels turn,” Khamosh said.
However, the acting foreign minister Muttaqi denied the arrests of the activists for whom Khamosh demanded freedom, saying that the Taliban had not arrested or tortured those women.“I do not trust him,” Khamosh said, reacting to Mottaqi’s denial. She said she'd been handed documents by one of the women's mothers that showed the women had been taken by the Taliban.
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