Pakistan’s First Lady Aseefa Bhutto Zardari says Afghanistan is its own country and the government should be able to make its own decisions.
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00:00How devastating in your mind was the withdrawal from Afghanistan, your neighbor?
00:06Because at this point it seems as if the international community doesn't or isn't able to help those women.
00:13We gave them great promise and then we abandoned them.
00:16With regards of the way the exit from Afghanistan was conducted, I think that that record speaks for itself.
00:24It's devastating to see, but we have to have faith in the Afghan government and their systems.
00:30And we have to ensure that as a country like Pakistan, who is our neighbor,
00:34we can try and encourage them to take on board our women and perhaps not go with such stern language when it comes to them.
00:42But it's also that they are their own country and we can't dictate them to tell them what they should do.