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My guest is shaharzad akbar, former chairperson of afghanistans independent human rights commission. What would morally acceptable engagement look like . Shaharzad akbar, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Its good to be here. Its good to have you here. If i may, im going to start with some powerful words of yours. You wrote recently, i spend every day with a fire burning in my heart with the pain of injustice that women in my country face. Of course, since the taliban takeover, youre no longer living in your homeland. Youre living here in the uk. Does that actually, in a funny sort of way, intensify the pain you feel . Absolutely. I mean, every day i feel like im living two different realities at the same time. I wake up in oxford, where im a visiting scholar and its green and beautiful and people are going on about their lives. And then im all day long following the situation back home, talking to colleagues, monitoring the human rights violations. And during the day, several times, i h ....
In my heart with the pain of injustice that women in my country face. Of course, since the taliban takeover, youre no longer living in your homeland. Youre living here in the uk. Does that actually, in a funny sort of way, intensify the pain you feel . Absolutely. I mean, every day i feel like im living two different realities at the same time. I wake up in oxford, where im a visiting scholar and its green and beautiful and people are going on about their lives. And then im all day long following the situation back home, talking to colleagues, monitoring the human rights violations. And during the day, several times, i have to kind of stop myself and remind myself to be more present, especially around my children, but also not to be paralysed by the pain, because pain can be paralysing, it can take away action. You talk about monitoring the situation every hour of every day and of talking to colleagues. Im just wondering how you can talk to colleagues working on human rights issues ins ....
Honesty. but it s not a driver s license, he has a driver s license to drive his country into a ditch. that s the unfortunate part of it. he s not only trying to shake a ghost he s also looking at the flag of a person. i salute the flag too but i don t talk to. at one point durga kira talking about his father he turned to the flag and started talking to the flag. i don t know if he mistook the flight for his father come i wasn t sure what going on there. i also feel more sorry for us as a country. i m a little scared. i mean who s making the decisions? that s another key question. perfect segue. he told us he s ready to go to ukraine yesterday but jen psaki says not so much. listen. we are making that decision now. thank you. would you send? i m ready to go. sending the president to the ukraine something you guys have talked about? i know there is no plan but it does it something you guys are ....