Former Afghanistan ambassador to US Roya Rahmani: Afghan women ‘in a state of panic’

Roya Rahmani, who served as the first female Afghanistan ambassador to the United States until last month, said Afghan women are “in a state of panic” after the Taliban retook the country two weeks ago.

"There are already alarms going off for Afghan women, and they are in a state of panic," she said. Rahmani, who sat alongside Yasmeen Hassan, the global executive director of Equality Now, said the Taliban is trying to rebrand itself as a more moderate version of the hard-line Islamic militant group, but that we won’t get the full picture of the "Taliban 2.0" until the U.S. completes its evacuation effort and completely pulls out of the country on Tuesday.