A woman’s role in laying a foundation for a nation’s change

GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were the major figures at the Afghanistan conference in London last Thursday.

The delegation from Kabul did not contain any women – they were told this “is not ladies’ business; it is about security”.

The conference agreed to stop fighting the Taliban by paying them to hand over their arms with the help of a €350m fund to be raised by the countries engaged in the war over the past eight years.