Farhan Bokhari is an Islamabad-based foreign correspondent who writes on Pakistan and its surrounding region.
Dialogue may persuade Taliban to accept goals within its hard-line ideology

A woman dresses her child at a hospital in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, in March 2023. Since taking over in 2021, Taliban authorities have barred women from universities and most charity jobs, but they have made exemptions in the healthcare sector. © Reuters
Farhan Bokhari is an Islamabad-based foreign correspondent who writes on Pakistan and its surrounding region.