Roya Rahmani, Afghanistan’s Ambassador to the U.S.: Afghan Women Are ‘Not Willing to Give Up Their Rights’ – Foreign Policy Interview
In an interview, Afghanistan’s first female ambassador to Washington sets a hard line for Taliban peace talks.
Roya Rahmani arrived in Washington at a critical juncture.
Afghanistan’s first female ambassador to the United States, Rahmani took up her post in December, just as President Donald Trump was announcing his intention to withdraw U.S. troops from her country.
Since then, American diplomats have been racing to seal a peace deal with the Taliban that would end the longest war in U.S. history—and decades of civil strife in Afghanistan.
This week, Rahmani sat down with Foreign Policy to discuss what a deal with the Taliban would mean for Afghans’ civil rights, whether it is possible to trust the militant group, and the staggering battlefield losses being absorbed by Afghan security forces…