NEWSMAX: Advancing women’s rights in Afghanistan is key to preventing the Taliban from reimposing a radical form of Islam once most foreign troops leave by the end of 2014, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces said on Saturday.
Afghan women have won back basic rights in education, voting and employment since the Taliban were ousted in 2001, but fears are growing such gains could be traded away as Western forces prepare to leave and the Afghan government seeks peace talks with the group…
“It’s going to be very difficult for the Taliban to reassert themselves, absent of fundamental change in their philosophical approach,” he told Reuters in his office at the headquarters of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul… (more)
