This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Jackie Leonard and in this edition of the Global News Podcast, recorded on Monday

the 30th of August, we'll be doing something a bit different.

We asked for your questions on Afghanistan and you responded in unprecedented numbers.

So we've gathered together some of the best people from the BBC to answer them.

Our Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent Sakunda Kamani is in Kabul for us.

So too is Lee's duet, who covered the asking of the Taliban in 2001,

but further back was actually there in the late 1980s for the Soviet troop withdrawal.

Our security correspondent is Frank Gardner, whose knowledge of the politics,

militant groups and factions at play has been honed over decades at the BBC,

and she's presenter and international correspondent Yalda Hakeem.

He was born in Afghanistan, began her journalistic career there 15 years ago,

and says she feels she's come full circle by going back to report from the country

in recent months. It was Yalda, by the way, who got the first extraordinary interview

with the Taliban after they took Kabul when one of their commanders called her directly when she was on air.

The other key feature of this podcast is you, you have asked about the history,

the politics, the culture, human rights and the economy,

and we will do our best to offer some answers.

Now, as we know, this has all been changing very fast indeed, and this podcast isn't so much

about the events of today as how we got here and what might happen next.

But for a little context, as we record this podcast, thousands of Afghans have been fleeing,

or at least trying to. The airport at Kabul has seen chaos and desperation.

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