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Afterword
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I dont know if anyone is still interested in Afghanistan , but there is a small article on “Afghan Drought ” on the ( UK ) BBC website ,in the South Asia section. I’d like to know why these people are not getting food aid.
And how a woman gets to be governor of a province .To be governor now , she must have been climbing upwards in local government / politics 10 years ago , surely . Now wouldnt that have been under the Taliban ? But I thought they had women locked in houses , only allowed out wearing burkas .
If you asked most people I know , what we are fighting for in Afgh , they’d rack their brains and finally offer , equality for women , burn your burkas . After the death of a respected , 40 yr old ,UK serviceman in Afgh last summer , his family said that he saw his mission to help create a country where Afgh girls got the same educational oportunities as his own 2 beloved daughters . But maybe the status of women under the Taliban wasnt as bad as we’ve been given to understand ? Anyone know ?
Comment by anna nicholas — 18 October 2008 @ 7:23 pm