KABUL: Halfway through the journey home to Kabul, a Taliban militant stopped Fatima's bus, boarded, and began making a speech so extraordinary that the 23-year-old began to surreptitiously film it on her phone. Afghan psychologist Fatima Sadat Alawi ,23, looks on during an interview with AFP at Wazir Akbar Khan Park in Kabul. — AFP The footage, partially obscured by Fatima's fingers as she tried to hide what she was doing, offers rare insight into what appears to be a "charm offensive" by the insurgents as they attempt to shed their brutal image in the minds of ordinary Afghans. It shows the thickly bearded and turbaned militant speaking gently in a mix of Dari and...
↧