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Year after the taliban seized control of kabul. since then the group has significantly rolled back women's rights, requiring them to cover their faces in public, and banning girls from attending secondary school. on that note, we have a quick programming note to share with you. it's been nearly one year since the united states withdrew from afghanistan. tomorrow fareed zakaria is going to take a look back in a gps special. sitting down with the former afghan president ash raf afghani to ask him why he left his country during that turbulent time. the fall of kabul airs tomorrow right here on cn...

Hash out not just a peace agreement, but also some kind of an agreement whereby the u.s. can get taliban permission, essentially, to bring those 3,000 troops in to withdraw those u.s. embassy personnel safely, the question then becomes what does the taliban want to see happen next. does afghan president ash raf began i find himself in a situation where he now has to resign? will that be enough to satisfy the taliban? there are still so many questions. a stunning lack of clarity right now. and i think many afghans on the ground feeling a real lack of leadership. >> clarissa, it is obviously a d...

If this may have been inevitable at some point, was this inevitable now, this quickly, and in this fashion? because the biden administration and the president himself didn't seem to think so just several weeks ago. let's listen to what the president said. >> is the taliban take over of afghan inevitable? >> no, it is not. >> why? >> because you have the afghan troops have 300,000 well equipped, as well equipped as any army in the world, and an air force against something like 75,000 taliban. it is not inevitable. the jury is still out, but the likelihood there is going to be the taliban overru...

Difference. >> he is different, but there are a lot of things. this is the thank you tour. yesterday he thanked the american taxpayer. i was impressed, impressioned but stuck by the fact he appeared in coat anti. every time you saw karzai he was in tribal attire with traditional afghan attire. this was -- this is ash raf ghani giving them the afghanistan they want to see. he is worried a precipitous withdrawal will create a vacuum. isis is trying to fill the vacuum left by american disengagement in afghanistan. he is trying to thank us but also trying to give us a picture of what we want. >> s...