Saad Mohseni

But the 10% or 15%, they have guns, they're powerful, they're determined.

So there's always this sort of tug of war between the conservative elements and the ordinary public.

Well, I wrote the book because I thought that's it, that's the end.

But we continue.

Obviously, our programming is restricted in the sense that we can't have music and we can't have soap operas.

But the country has changed.

The majority of Afghans were not born when the Taliban were in power in the 1990s.

The median age is 18, and people use VPNs or people have satellite technology.

You can't, you know, the genie's out of the bottle.

And I think you can't, I mean, technology allows people now to get what they want.

Well, they continue.

I mean, as a matter of fact, we have more female employees in our newsroom today than we did in 2021.

They have to wear surgical masks to appear on television, but they're on the field.

They go on

ask questions, they have TV programs, they continue doing the good work that they did before the fall of the government.

What's interesting is that this new Afghanistan

is also changing the Taliban.

The Taliban have returned to a new, changed Afghanistan, and they have to adjust.

And you have to remember that Taliban fighters are also quite young.

They're in their early 20s.