4. The negotiator

A Wish for Afghanistan by BBC

Sep 22, 202126:49News & Politics

The woman face to face with the Taliban - peacemaker, women’s rights advocate and negotiator, Fatima Gailani is the nearest Afghanistan has to aristocracy. Now in her late 60s, she was the female face of Afghan resistanc...

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