After fighting the Taliban, should we now talk to them? | Sitrep podcast
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Two years since British troops left, and the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, millions of people are going hungry while women and girls have been stripped of basic rights.
The Chairman of the Commons Defence Committee says we need to stop ‘shouting from the sidelines’ and re-engage with the Taliban, but after posting a video from Helmand describing the country as ‘transformed’ he’s facing a no-confidence vote from his colleagues.
So how should the UK help? Indeed can it help? Sitrep talks to former Afghan diplomat Nazifa Haqpal and retired Colonel Simon Diggins who was Defence Attaché in Kabul for two years.
Nazifa warns the Taliban is trying to radicalise the population, so Professor Michael Clarke explains the threat Afghanistan poses to the UK, and why we should care about ‘fixing it’.
00:00 - On this Sitrep episode
01:35 - The difficult questions on Afghanistan
07:28 - Life under the Taliban
15:58 - The terrorist threat from Afghanistan
18:29 - Time to talk to the Taliban?
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