Shabnan: We need to start framing everything around the geo political crisis that we are in, and stop ignoring it. The outlook for a united government is very, very slim. And i agree with the point that pr made, that asia is evolving, its modernizing,. It's changing. Ar, and it's wrong for the heart of asia, afghanistan, right in the middle, to exist in such a way. A, in its current form. Shabnan says he does interfece with politicians but not on the conservative side.
One year ago the United States decided to withdraw from Afghanistan after two decades in the country. The Taliban, a militant Islamist group that ran most of Afghanistan in the late 1990s, swept to power without much resistance from the Afghan army and captured Kabul on August 15 2021. The debacle left Western governments humiliated and ordinary Afghans afraid. What responsibility do countries like Britain and the United States have for the current crisis? To discuss these issues our host the journalist and broadcaster Manveen Rana is joined by Shabnam Nasimi, Policy Advisor to the U.K Home Office, BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen, and Paul Mason, the journalist, writer and film-maker.
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