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the us and south korea have carried outjoint military exercises over the waters around the korean peninsula. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. taliban rule was re established in afghanistan almost a year ago. for afghans, it s meant the return of repressive religious authoritarianism and new levels of economic impoverishment. the mullahs seem ready to absorb indefinite isolation to reimpose their orthodoxy. but is that a sustainable strategy? my guest is fawzia koofi, former deputy speaker of the afghan parliament, now a democracy activist in exile. is there any glimmer of light in afghanistan s darkness? fawzia koofi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it s good to be with you. well, it s great to have you in this studio. i m sure you wish you were speaking to me from kabul, from afghanistan, but you have been in exile since the taliban returned to power. how difficult for you is that separation from your country? extremely difficult ....
to absorb indefinite isolation to re impose their orthodoxy. but is that a sustainable strategy? my guest is fawzia koofi, former deputy speaker of the afghan parliament, now a democracy activist in exile. is there any glimmer of light in afghanistan s darkness? fawzia koofi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it s good to be with you. well, it s great to have you in this studio. i m sure you wish you were speaking to me from kabul, from afghanistan, but you have been in exile since the taliban returned to power. how difficult for you is that separation from your country? extremely difficult. i never actually wished, i never hoped, to leave the country that gave me the identity, a country that i did not only invest my time, but i invested my blood to make it a better country for everyone. it has been a very difficult decision for me to leave afghanistan. i actually was in kabulfor a few weeks after the taliban takeover with the hope that things will get to a situation wher ....
Here you have the leader of al qaeda, who we have been pursuing for over 20 years, right downtown in a house that reportedly was controlled by the number two in the taliban haqqani regime who, by the way, has a $10 million bounty on his head as well. so we are going to have to continue to focus on afghanistan to ensure that further situations like this are not allowed. and keep in mind that the group in afghanistan that is most concerning right now was not al qaeda. it is actually the islamic state khorasan group, of the islamic state that we remember from northern iraq and northeastern syria, that is the group that has been carrying out the most horrific of attacks trying to spark a sectarian civil war in afghanistan, and that bears very, very careful and close watching. and, of course, we ll have to do all of that from over the horizon. this shows that we can do that. none of us ever doubted that, even those of us who questioned the withdrawal. ....
In the last four decades, it s the afghan nation. we paid the highest price before 9/11. we were claiming and shouting that we are the victim of military extremism in the region. the world was, it s a civil war in afghanistan, let the afghans decide about their future, until the september 11 attack happened. after the september 11 attack, we were in the forefront of protecting the common principles of democracy. we lost many lives. opportunities were taken away from us being an ally to international community in our common cause for democracy. now, to compensate the money that actually could be a widow s money, an orphan s money who lost their breadwinners in this war, it doesn t make any sense. and, honestly, a lot of decisions that were made recently, in the last two or three years, internationally does not make much sense to me and to many people in afghanistan. now, i am very mindful that you were a young student in afghanistan when the taliban ....