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00:00:38And now on BBC Persian TV, the documentary
00:00:52I said why, he said no one is ready. Then there were many drops too.
00:00:56was your heart.
00:01:34I have been reporting on the Taliban
00:01:36for over a decade. Men who have now emerged
00:01:40from their hiding places to run the country.
00:01:43Women
00:01:45are foolish, not smart, they don't understand anything.
00:01:48I think the Taliban
00:01:51are afraid. The Taliban are afraid that when
00:01:55a woman understands, she will never bring up
00:01:59ignorant people like the Taliban. Now that the Taliban leaders have transformed from an insurgent group
00:02:02outside of power to rulers within the government structure,
00:02:06can they leave their dark past behind?
00:02:36After twenty years of war, the Taliban have taken power
00:02:39in Afghanistan.
00:02:54This moment was a turning point for Zabiullah Mujahid.
00:02:58As the senior spokesman of the Taliban group, he was
00:03:02pursued by Afghan and US government forces
00:03:05for years. He operated in hiding
00:03:09for more than two decades. Now that the Americans have left the country, for the first
00:03:12time, he revealed his face.
00:03:14I was in Kandahar when
00:03:24Kabul was silent. I couldn't get there sooner. I arrived a day or two later.
00:03:27I was worried
00:03:33myself because I had taken
00:03:37responsibility for many years as a party.
00:03:40Killing. The worry came back to my mind.
00:03:44How should they imagine it?
00:05:00Any lie, God forbid, they say, they cannot say against
00:05:03Islamic law, Islamic rulings. The media can
00:05:07have their broadcasts.
00:05:08باشند.
00:05:42He arrested Tolo News reporters and imprisoned them
00:05:45for two weeks.
00:05:48And today, Zabiullah Mujahid came to your television to get close
00:05:52to them.
00:06:01No, let's go.
00:06:45Seven people were killed
00:06:47and 25 were injured.
00:06:54Zabiullah Mujahid, as the Taliban spokesman, had defended this attack.
00:06:58At one point, your military target was Tolo. The situation is different. When
00:07:01two brothers are fighting and at one point, because we are in Tolo,
00:07:04I want to remind you of this incident that happened 10 years ago, that in
00:07:08an attack by Taliban members on the Tolo employees' car,
00:07:12people were killed. When you came to Tolo, did you remember that incident? Of course, we don't want
00:07:16to mention past tragedies. Time has changed, circumstances have changed, everything
00:07:20has changed. Now we are
00:07:22friendly.
00:07:24The survivors of the Taliban attack on Tolo television do not talk to the media
00:07:28out of fear of the Taliban, but one of them, who suffered
00:07:32irreparable injuries, said that she neither forgives
00:07:35nor forgets
00:07:36the perpetrators of this attack.
00:07:48The Taliban's suicide attacks in Afghanistan have left thousands
00:07:52dead, including civilians.
00:08:04Two years ago, I went to a man who designed
00:08:08some of these attacks.
00:08:08کرده.
00:08:43He was in this prison awaiting his execution sentence when
00:08:47the Taliban took power.
00:08:50Overnight, he transformed from a condemned prisoner
00:08:52to the prison's official.
00:08:56شد.
00:09:04Here, most of
00:09:05my friends.
00:09:46This city was traditionally one of the front lines
00:09:50against the Taliban.
00:09:51Now that the Taliban have come to power,
00:09:55they are trying to show that they are not
00:09:59just insurgents.
00:10:01This is all
00:10:04the brothers, all the departments. It will be translated first thing in the morning
00:10:08at 15 minutes. All the brothers, all the departments.
00:10:11Abdullah Sarhadi is the governor
00:10:15of this province, a former Guantanamo prisoner and someone who
00:10:19is highly respected among the Taliban. Translation
00:10:23that one day of belief.
00:10:55Helps.
00:11:09For the mosque, the Taliban recently banned the use of smartphones for government
00:11:13employees, and this restriction has affected
00:11:16the governor's work.
00:11:27Do you have a phone here? We don't have one here.
00:11:41Although we were allowed to film, he doesn't want
00:11:45everything to be recorded. The governor
00:11:48quickly wraps up most meetings, sometimes
00:11:52between two sips.
00:12:25This is the solution, I'm even ready to go, but I don't want to divorce him
00:12:28and I don't want to live with him anymore.
00:12:32We don't live together, so I don't want to divorce him.
00:12:35Governor, why should I divorce him? Everything comes from him, so I should divorce
00:12:39him? In Islamic Sharia, when a woman comes
00:12:43forward for divorce, she must request a khula (divorce initiated by the wife) and may be forced
00:12:47to return her dowry to her husband. Consider
00:12:49that if we separate, who will take us or
00:12:53not? There must be many things. We should look into it.
00:12:57Surely you won't be bad. You will be
00:13:00dishonored, Governor. The chastity I had, the honor I
00:13:03had, was taken from this man.
00:13:06You are here. What I see is amazing.
00:13:10This brave woman knows her rights
00:13:14and has made the governor's job of making a decision difficult.
00:13:17کرده
00:13:23A woman is an idiot. She is mentally deficient and doesn't understand anything.
00:13:43This is the main power base of the Taliban.
00:13:47Kandahar is the headquarters of Hibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of this
00:13:50group. That's why some consider it the unofficial capital.
00:13:54Miss you.
00:14:53The years he lived in hiding. Our work was very easy. When my
00:14:57face was not exposed, meaning it was not in the media,
00:15:01I was very comfortable. I could travel to
00:15:04the provinces. I could easily travel on main roads
00:15:08and even go to the market and get my own things.
00:15:12I could fulfill my needs. After that, when we
00:15:15came on screen, our limitations increased, and we faced
00:15:19problems. That time was easier.
00:15:21Now that the Taliban have come to power,
00:15:25he decides to reveal his true identity on camera for the first
00:15:28time.
00:15:30کند.
00:15:33I am Zabiullah Mujahid, spokesman of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
00:15:38My real name is different. My name
00:15:41is Tahir Shah. Actually, my parents gave
00:15:44me this name. I was introduced.
00:15:46Siddiqui
00:15:50Yes, I see my writings sometimes. Sometimes I have written
00:15:53poetry. The previous pseudonym is the previous name. Of course,
00:15:56I miss it.
00:15:59We really love trade. I used to trade, I was a merchant.
00:16:02I liked the profession, but I was more interested
00:16:06in education.
00:16:09Most Taliban leaders, who lived in hiding for years,
00:16:13now have similar confidence. They no
00:16:16longer need to hide. The Taliban,
00:16:19when they came to power, promised to build an inclusive government.
00:16:22Is this still on the agenda? The characteristics of the people
00:16:26of Afghanistan are different from the rest of the world.
00:16:29The people of Afghanistan do not
00:16:33have much tolerance for each other.
00:16:35If we gather different political factions,
00:16:39I don't think we can build a system together. It will fall apart
00:16:43in a few days. Because there is no tolerance
00:16:46among Afghans. It's as if a single
00:16:49government with one idea is ruling Afghanistan, and they have been given
00:16:53that time and opportunity, so other Afghans can
00:16:56live.
00:17:01While prominent Taliban figures roam freely,
00:17:04their opponents are forced to operate in secret.
00:17:13Especially women who have been removed from the scene and society.
00:17:27And when they fight for their rights, they
00:17:30face severe repression. Our main demands
00:17:33are the right to participate in society.
00:17:37The right to make decisions in government.
00:17:41Bread, work, and freedom are always there.
00:17:45We say that until we get a positive result
00:17:48from our protests, we will not give up
00:17:51on our goal.
00:17:54Five years ago, at the same time as the Taliban's return to power, this woman
00:17:58took to the streets to protest against the Taliban.
00:18:01Before the Taliban, she had
00:18:05a successful job and was active in society, but now we have to meet
00:18:08her in secret. Why do the Taliban want to restrict
00:18:12women? I think the Taliban
00:18:14are afraid. The Taliban are afraid that when a woman
00:18:18understands, she will never bring up
00:18:22ignorant people like the Taliban. They don't raise them, they don't
00:18:25educate them. That's why the Taliban restrict
00:18:29women so that they don't bring up intelligent
00:18:32men, and they keep them out of
00:18:34the picture. Afghanistan. The Taliban
00:18:38government is the only country in the world where teenage
00:18:41girls are deprived of going to school.
00:18:57These carpet-weaving girls are the second generation
00:19:00of women whose education has been prevented
00:19:04by the Taliban. Okay.
00:19:41These past five years are absolutely irreparable. What hopes were lost?
00:19:45I mean, overall, it's absolutely irreparable.
00:19:48نیسته
00:19:51After the Taliban closed the schools, for a while,
00:19:55everyone said it would be like this, then
00:19:58we would open them again. In other provinces and other countries,
00:20:01they also said it, but now no one says it anymore.
00:20:04Everyone is grieving in Afghanistan.
00:20:33The narrative of all individuals involved in the 18-year-old woman's divorce case
00:20:37has been heard.
00:22:10Five years ago, the Taliban said they had changed, but
00:22:13Afghanistan under Taliban rule is a country
00:22:17in the hands of men and for men.
00:25:50In Bamiyan, it became one of the symbols of the Taliban
00:25:53during the last government of this group in the early 2000s.
00:25:57شد.
00:27:02Why are we upset? We are under divine rule.
00:27:04هستیم.
00:27:10The Taliban government is isolated in the world.
00:27:13برد.
00:27:16Most people in Afghanistan live in poverty.
00:27:19More than two-thirds of the country's population
00:27:23is unemployed. And the US has frozen
00:27:26billions of dollars of Afghanistan's financial reserves.
00:27:29است.
00:27:36Afghanistan's contemporary history is full of instability
00:27:39and political transformations. It is still unclear how long
00:27:43the Taliban government can last.
00:27:45But the biggest threat to
00:27:49the group's survival lies within
00:27:52the Taliban itself.
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