Two months after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, one of the country’s once-prominent female leaders, Fawzia Koofi, is visiting the United Nations, not as a representative of her government but as a woman in exile.
“After they signed the agreement, they were more extreme and they were more into buying time, preferring a military strategy,” she said.
She also blamed “world leaders,” seeming to point a finger at U.S. President Joe Biden. “As a superpower, the United States has a major responsibility and should be held accountable,” she said.Biden said he was bound by the timetable set by the Trump administration Her former female colleagues in parliament, female judges who used to sentence people affiliated with the Taliban and some journalists who spoke out against the group are now fearful, she said.
“They’re very angry ... that I am not with them at these difficult times,” she said. “The women, especially, they keep sending me messages expressing their anger that, you know, ‘We need you to be here with us in the streets of Kabul,’ and they are right.”
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