A video has gone viral of a Taliban fighter collapsing with laughter when asked about democratically voted in female politicians – and telling the camera to stop filming as he loses it.
In the viral clip, part of a documentary on the Taliban shot earlier this year, a female journalist quizzes three Taliban leaders who were expressing hope Afghanistan would have a Taliban president soon.
On the question of whether women’s rights were possible under Taliban rule in Afghanistan, the men’s reaction was affirmative.
But then the reporter asks: “Does that mean people will be allowed to vote in women politicians?”
The leaders break out in laughter and one of them – identified as Commander Khatab – asks her to stop filming the video as he shakes with mirth.
The interviewer is Vice News’s Hind Hassan, the only woman in the crew that went to Taliban-held territory in the then Afghan government-controlled country several months ago.
Ms Hassan was asked to wear a traditional blue…
