Fawzia Koofi is an Afghan politician who for the past few years has been one of the few women in peace talks with the Taliban. Last August she was wounded in an assassination attempt. She discusses the attack and the threat the Taliban pose to women’s rights, while the Guardian’s world affairs editor, Julian Borger, discusses the legacy of the US ‘forever’ war

Last August, Fawzia Koofi, a member of Afghanistan’s peace negotiating team, was wounded in an assassination attempt. Koofi, also a women’s rights activist, has been a vocal Taliban critic, but the Taliban denied they were behind the attempt on her life. Just weeks later she was once again face to face with them at negotiations trying to reach an agreement to bring stability to Afghanistan.

She tells Rachel Humphreys about the progress of those negotiations and the impact the US troop withdrawal will have on her country, and in particular on women’s rights. After 20 years of US military involvement in Afghanistan, the US has announced it will have withdrawn all of its troops by 11 September this year.

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We’d like to hear from those in India, and relatives living in the UK or elsewhere, about their experiences

International aid has been arriving in India, as an unprecedented surge in coronavirus cases brings the healthcare system to its knees. Hospitals have been forced to turn away patients as oxygen supplies and beds run out.

India recorded yet another day of over 300,000 new cases on Monday and 2,771 new deaths. However, experts believe the official toll is far higher, with some states accused of undercounting coronavirus fatalities and cases.

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