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BBC News President Karzai is to outline plans to re-integrate Taliban fighters into Afghan society and government at a conference in London tomorrow. A news conference under the theme "Afghan Women Leader's Priorities for Afghanistan Stabilization and Reconstruction" is being held ahead of the main meeting.
Wazhma Frogh, an Afghan womens' human rights campaigner who was awarded the U.S. Department of State International Woman of Courage Award in 2009, discusses how the role of women is integral to Afghanistan's development and her fears about the Taliban.
Please follow this link to listen to/download a BBC interview with Frogh: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8482000/8482438.stm
Submitted on 01/27/2010
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