Inside the land of silent women
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
How do you live in a society where you can’t speak in public? Where you can’t travel to work without a chaperone? Where you can’t leave the city with your family? We speak to a young woman in Afghanistan who tries to explain. And as Afghanistan’s national cricket team faces off against South Africa this week – how is the nation enforcing a gender apartheid not facing boycott?
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Host: Manveen Rana.
Guests:
- Christina Lamb, Chief Foreign Correspondent, The Sunday Times.
- A female doctor in Afghanistan.
Clips: Afghanistan Cricket Board, Sky Sports.
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| 1:39.0 | About three years ago I finished medical school and I was about to start my own clinic |
| 1:51.2 | but due to Taliban I couldn't continue that and now I'm at home. A few months after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, we spoke to a female doctor in |
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