Welcome for your answer!

Your are right, English is not my mother tongue and Afghani is my personal (german) slang for afghan people. But I call them like this while having full respect to them! Have to say this, so you don`t get me wrong!

I was many years in relation with a pashtun girl born in Kabul. Her father was a professor for maths/physics who temporally teached in a german university while his german collagues did same in Kabul. When the russians invaded Afghanistan he was able to emigrate to Germany with his wife and his 3 daughters. He and his wife were coming from a privileged families and they managed it to mix german and afghan culture. All his 3 girls are now married to european guys, all have studied and work while still having kids. And all of them teach their kids their family tongue (afghan farsi). Sadly grandpa and grandma passed away while still having the unfullfilled dream once to return back to Kabul.

We talked, better to say he and his wife told me a lot about their Afghanistan; I saw a bunch of photo albums and selfmade super 8 films covering the life of his family, the country and the culture and I listended to their family history. I still have my feet right now on top of an old family carpet I got as a present for my 30s birthday. I understood how they honored me when giving me an old traditional piece from their family.
And of course I am happy that I got feed much too much with a full taste through afghanstan cuisine made by the mother that days.

Thats my experience with Afghanistan

I have been twice in Iran and I love the country, the people and the culture. You asked for whose view of womens rights. For an acceptable start of women rights I would say, do it like in Iran. I don`t fully agree to their islamic view to womens but I think it could be a better starter than that I recognize or hear through actual media now in Afghanistan. But ok, I am european with a european view and understanding, I speak only less farsi and arabic, I am not religious but me and my persian girlfriend managed it to marry the persian way (sighe).

I have been to some islamic countries and I have never felt not welcomed. The very reverse often happend to me in these countries. I was richly awarded with an oustanding hospitality, kindness, helpfulness - so I found myself often overwhelmed and confused by the possitive way how islamic people generally treat foreigners. As I said I am not religious but I learned a lot about the way seeing the world with an "islamic view" and I adopted a lot for myself.

So I still hope and wish that these fckng pandemic will soon as possible turn into a direction that it will be possible again to visit and travel countries like Pakistan. And of course I hope that influences of the change in Afghanistan won`t reflect to certain islamic groups in other countries as a promoter for any kind of violence actions.

Salam!

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