ABC News’ Linsey Davis speaks with Afghan journalist and University of Nebraska student Nasrin Nawa on the situation back home as her family remains unable to evacuate.Nasrin Nawa, a journalist from Kabul traveling to the U.S. for graduate school, was able to leave Afghanistan on Friday before the Taliban seized the capital. Unfortunately, she said her family members were not as lucky.
"Everyone has some memories [of the] Taliban from the previous regime. It was so dark and so terrifying. It was full of cruelty and people just remember all the public executions," said Nawa."They will start taking away some people, specifically journalists, social activists [and] females who were active."The Pentagon said Monday that 6,000 U.S.
"We could work, we could educate, we could lead. We had so many women in governments and nonprofit organizations that were leaders," she said."But now they're stuck in their home with no other help."Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid promised at a press conference Tuesday that women"will be afforded all their rights" under the new government.
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