Karzai: No way Afghanistan can live without girls going to school
Today鈥檚 Martha Kearney speaks to Hamid Karzai, the former president of Afghanistan.
Afghanistan has been through many decades of civil war and hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in those years of conflict. Now much of the population is facing extreme hunger. The World Bank has warned that more than a third of Afghans no longer have enough money to feed themselves. The country鈥檚 economy was dependent on foreign grants that were cut off after the Taliban takeover and there are rising concern over their policies on women and girls. The 麻豆社鈥檚 Afghanistan correspondent Secunder Kermani also reports from Kabul and Today鈥檚 Martha Kearney speaks to Afghanistan鈥檚 former president Hamid Karzai.
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