“We are not concerned with those issues,†the Taliban governor of Afghanistan’s largest province tells FRONTLINE’s Martin Smith about current levels of poverty and unemployment, weak healthcare, and women unhappy with the Taliban’s restrictions.
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The West need to stop trying to rescue the Middle East. They want Taliban and ISIS. Just leave them to it. If the citizens wants freedom, they have to fight for it themselves.
I’d like to what findings you find now that they have had some time to really settle in. A friend has said it Is really fixed up and thriving.
Taliban work for America. They are the ones who gave the excuse for the blood thirsty and genocidal US to attack Afghanistan in the first place and now since 3 years they are recieving millions of dollars fron their American master weekly
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if you belong to a community,you should do your part of job
that's why i'm writing this,
the USA government. should think about Afghanistan people
they are suffering,The Taliban using them power and destroying over 42 million people life's,
The world has forgotten the people of Afghanistan.There are educated people who struggle to earn $50 a month.On the other hand,if you are a member of a Taliban family, you will find a job so easily with a monthly income of $500, even if you cannot write your name.
they destroyed the education system in Afghanistan,
and people of Afghanistan cannot go to other countries to work or take education ,because the Afghan passport is not accepted in any country.becouse of Taliban
The lives of our people are become hell, the USA leaves them alone for the Monsters,
and sorry for bad English
I think whatever has happened in past but currently Afghanistan is under Taliban, so Taliban should take responsibility for their people. I hope other countries will help to rebuild their infrastructure.
We pray God will help beautiful Afghanistan. 😊
American media is so shameless it’s mind boggling. Only the sheep would be fooled by the deliberate misrepresentation in the last sentence. They’re sitting on their high horse criticizing a nation they’ve been bombing, murdering, raping and pillaging for the last 20 years. Given the direction America is going, Americans will have to seek refuge in a prosperous Afghanistan in 5 years time.
Most taliban like any extremist are bad people. They dont care about people dieng having hunger etc. Their own families are safe abroud. And they rule Afghanistan as a zoo.
These mf just hide in mountains like theives and fight like cowards
"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
I swear to god he didn’t finish his word “we didn’t care about those issues……†I don’t know why they even let you speak with them if you don’t be honest as a journalist
a layer is laying
Afghanistan has been rocked by 20 years of war and you come back in two years asking why they don’t have their shit together🤣 Half the population don’t know what it’s like to live with peace
Allah says be careful.
Western media still nosy about the affairs in Afghanistan. Americans just cant mind their own business
Simple America bring back terrorist Taliban to my country..our future completely destroyed under terrorism government
The problem is Taliban doesn't understand the only reason they won was because of rules of engagement, I understand americans killed lots of civilians, but the media is bad for america so they can't do around shooting every person in afghanistan. Which made this war impossible, The taliban so to speak were not stronger, or prevailed in the manner they think they did. The Russians could have nuked everything in Afghanistan when they fought the mujahadeen, and they would have won, the americans could have used their planes, and everything to shot anything moving, and win the war.
I'm no supporter of taliban, or islam, or all that. But I mean there are tons of women that like to be oppressed, and used in america, and sexually, and everywhere in the world, women that want to be slaves because they are so delusional, and used., broken.
We have a million places for women to be free, so I understand why muslims are mad, and afghanistan and muslim countries should be allowed to have their own rules, the women can just move away, and the women that want to live under the laws of sharia, which i think are many especially if you see today, lots of broken women that don't care about themselves, or want to be strong, or want to be whatever.
I see what taliban and islam is doing as oppressing, but in their eyes thats how their countries work, if all the women leave, and no new women move to afghanistan, or other muslim countries then so be it? That's the only way to teach these days.
Our countries in Europe, America, australia, japan, have been through the same, women were slaves at one point, not allowed to do anything, and then people realized that women would simply refuse, commit suicide, become robots, become nothing and women have fought for their rights, sadly a lot of women have taken it too far, and are immoral and disgusting today, but yeah, and that's what needs to happen in afghanistan.
We need to let them be them, and then eventually they will grow to understand how they must go beyond their religion like every other religion have done, because in the end we are just human, every one of us. No God should have power over us, or decide what we want to do, we should decide as people, that's what the gods have allowed us to do. Democrazy is awful, but it allows for a majority of people to make the rules.
By attacking afghanistan we've set the countries development back decades, it will take probably two or three more lifetimes before the leaders of taliban, or afghanistan will start allowing women to be like they are in our countries.
let them run their own country watch some travel videos the taliban are not these monsters they have a different way of doing things log in eye really
Western media propaganda machinery will not leave Afghanistan alone?
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