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Amir Khan Muttaqi, Afghan FM: Not everything is banned for women

Amir Khan Muttaqi, Afghan FM: Not everything is banned for women

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Lyse Doucet speaks to Afghan FM Amir Khan Muttaqi about women's rights and reform

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Lyse Doucet, the BBC’s chief international correspondent, meets
Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi as the Taliban
seeks greater international recognition. The Taliban returned to
power five years ago but Russia is still the only country to have
formally recognised their rule. Afghanistan is pushing for
stronger diplomatic relations, but their treatment of women and
girls remains one of the biggest obstacles. We ask the foreign
minister why Afghan women and girls are facing growing
restrictions on education, work and public life.

“The conduct with women shouldn’t be looked at through the
glasses of western culture and tradition. Afghan values should be
considered... You can wander around Afghanistan, in Kabul in the
cities, see the way women work, do business or go to elementary
schools or to Madrassas, the situation isn’t the way it can be
interpreted,” he says.

Afghanistan also needs more aid and investment in the midst of a
deepening humanitarian and economic crisis. Are the Taliban
prepared to do more to achieve full international recognition?

(Image: Amir Khan Muttaqi. Credit: Reuters)

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Presenter: Lyse Doucet Producer: Farhana Haider