The day the Taliban overtook Kabul: An interview with Ahmad Shuja Jamal

UNSW Kaldor Centre

As Shuja Jamal walked to the Presidential Palace in Kabul for work at 8.30am on 15 August 2021, ‘it was clear that this is unlike any other day … something in the air in the city ... You can actually feel it.’ Shuja is the former director-general for international relations for Afghanistan’s National Security Council, and his new book is 'The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan', co-authored with William Maley. He takes us back to the day the Taliban took over. Ahmad Shuja Jamal speaks with the Kaldor Centre's Lauren Martin.