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Nov 2023
36m 50s

INSIDE THE TALIBAN

Pod Rowe Productions
About this episode

When Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, Kiwi reporter Charlotte Bellis made headlines around the world.


At the Taliban’s first press conference in Kabul it was Bellis, a blonde haired, blue eyed westerner who brazenly questioned the organisations leaders on women’s rights.


Fast forward to a year later, it was the Taliban that would offer her assistance when the New Zealand government wouldn’t let her into her own country. 


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