Life Under Taliban Rule: “Exactly What I Feared”

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, Michael Kugelman and Farahnaz Ispahani discuss life under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan with U.S. and NATO forces having exited that country after 20 years of conflict.

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Michael Kugelman, Deputy Director of the Asia Program and Senior Associate for South Asia, and Farahnaz Ispahani, Senior Fellow at the Religious Freedom Institute and former member of the National Assembly of Pakistan. They discuss life under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan with U.S. and NATO forces having exited that country after 20 years of conflict.

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