"Yes I’m hopeful, I’m hoping for some kind of an understanding of each other," says Afghan women's right activist Mahbouba Seraj after taking part in talks with a Taliban delegation in Norway. The Taliban have promised a softer rule than their last stint in power between 1996 and 2001 when women were banned from leaving the house without a male chaperone and forced to wear the all-covering burqa.

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