Yalda Hakim

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1May 7, '25“Pakistan talking about peace is like the devil quoting from the scripture” says BJP Spokesperson @JaiveerShergill. I also asked him about Pakistan’s call for an international inve75.3×4.2M36k5.2k2.2k
2Dec 21, '22The Taliban have used barbed wire and armed guards to prevent Afghan women from entering universities. Yet, despite the intimidation, they protest alongside brave Afghan men, deman48.4×2.7M4.9k1.6k65
3May 7, '25“There are no terrorist camps in Pakistan” says Pakistan’s Information Minister Attaullah Tatar. I spoke to him as India fired missiles into Pakistani-controlled territory in sever39.2×2.2M24k3k1.6k
4Mar 23, '22"Mum, they didn't let me enter my school. They're saying girls aren't allowed" Hopes and dreams shattered once again for millions of Afghan girls left in tears and devastated by th26.9×046k17k586
5Dec 22, '22“They closed the schools, the world remained silent, they closed our universities, silence, now they’ve come for our courses. What are we supposed to do? Kill ourselves?” Devastate23.1×1.3M13k5.9k186
6Mar 25, '22Unbelievable courage- Afghan girls protesting for their right to an education. They continue to show such bravery and resilience. We hear you #LetAfghanGirlsLearn22.4×049k11k202
7Dec 20, '22Horrendous news for Afghan women and girls. The Taliban have announced the closure of universities for women in Afghanistan, according to a letter by the higher education minister.21.8×1.2M2.9k1.6k40
8Mar 23, '22Every evening Ukraine's President #Zelenskyy addresses his nation. Tonight for the first time, he did it in English. Calling on people everywhere to show their solidarity "Come out20.4×042k11k761
9Mar 26, '22Downtown Kyiv, Saturday afternoon #Ukraine19.6×043k9.1k808
10Jun 9, '25What is Brigade 313? Is it Al Qaeda in Pakistan? I ask Vice President of the Pakistan People’s Party Senator Sherry Rehman about ongoing terrorist activity in Pakistan. Watch the f18.5×1M13k2.7k1.6k
11May 8, '25“Pakistan’s first choice was peace”. Pakistan’s High Commissioner to the UK, Mohammad Faisal, on Pakistan’s desire for an international investigation into the Pahalgam terrorist at15.5×875k5.5k788422
12Dec 21, '22Afghan women have been left devastated after the Taliban announced they’d no longer be allowed to attend university. It’s now 459 days since girls were banned from attending second13.9×784k5.5k2.5k95
13Feb 25, '22Massive rally in Georgia in solidarity with Ukraine. Georgia was invaded by Russia in 200813.1×033k4.8k131
14Sep 19, '21The Taliban have prohibited girls from secondary school in Afghanistan. In solidarity, many boys have been refusing to go to school themselves. “We don’t go to school without our s12.8×029k6.3k154
15Oct 2, '23My last show on BBC News. It has been the privilege & honour of my life to be in this position. I’ll forever be grateful for the opportunities I've had to share your stories &a12.8×719k5.8k421147
16Apr 25, '25We have been doing the dirty work of the United States for three decades”. Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif spoke to me last night in a remarkable and wide ranging intervie12×674k7.4k2k694
17Oct 2, '22Brave Afghan women out on the streets again, demanding their basic human rights11.1×024k5.7k109
18Apr 9, '22Johnson: “How are you?” Zelensky: “You know how I am”10.2×024k3.4k594
19Feb 11, '21BREAKING: BBC has been banned in China. The report said the BBC was responsible for a 'slew of falsified reporting' on issues including Xinjiang and China's handling of coronavirus8.1×013k4.7k152
20Jul 27, '23After more than a decade with @BBCWorld @BBCNews I have decided to depart the organisation. I do so with profound gratitude to all of my extraordinarily talented colleagues for the7.4×417k2.2k13331
21Mar 13, '22A wonderful note about Lviv from someone born here - "You can be born in the Austro-Hungarian empire, educated in Poland, married under the Third Reich, work and retire in the USSR7.2×017k3k499
22Aug 14, '21Women in #Herat, now under Taliban control are telling me when they tried to enter the grounds of their University today they were told to go home. Women working in offices also tu7.0×09.4k5.7k272
23Aug 29, '21Afghanistan TV - surreal This is what a political debate now looks like on Afghan TV, Taliban foot soldiers watching over the host. The presenter talks about the collapse of the Gh6.0×07.5k3.8k387
24Jun 20, '25I urge you to watch this documentary which follows two British doctors, Dr Victoria Rose and Dr Tom Potokar, who are in Gaza working in the hospitals. International journalists can5.9×334k2.2k830332
26Dec 22, '22In awe of their bravery. Afghan women continue to protest chanting “freedom” & “equality” after the Taliban banned them from attending universities5.5×311k6.2k1.6k27
27Apr 2, '22“We found 18 bodies in there. They had been torturing people. Some of them had their ears cut off. Others had teeth pulled out. There were kids like 14, 16 years old, some adults. 5.1×06k4.2k353
28Oct 30, '22Female students attempt to enter their university in Badakhshan only to be whipped by a member of the Taliban who prevents them from entering. The women chant ‘education is our rig5.0×07.3k3.8k158
29Aug 29, '21Afghan children who only a few days ago fled the horrors of war, being settled into their new life in Tirana, Albania #Afghanistan5.0×013k1.4k62
30Mar 9, '22BREAKING: Ukrainian MP Dmitry Gurin tells me a maternity complex has been bombed in the southern port city of Mariupol "It's all one complex -- a maternity and children's hospital.4.9×06.7k3.3k124
31Oct 5, '241114 since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. Afghanistan is the only country in the world to have this ban and the world stays mainly muted. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn4.8×273k3k69027
32Sep 3, '21A video message sent to us @BBCWorld from one of the leaders of the anti-Taliban resistance, fmr VP @AmrullahSaleh2 who says they're under attack from terrorists and points the fin4.5×08.4k2.1k104
33Dec 22, '22Afghan women take to the streets, protesting for their basic human rights despite the Taliban’s attempts to silence and intimidate them. They tell me they have nothing to lose4.4×245k4.7k1.3k18
34Oct 12, '251485 days since teenage girls have been banned from school in Afghanistan. In Delhi, Indian female journalists stood in solidarity with Afghan women & girls, asking the Taliban4.3×244k3.3k546230
35Aug 16, '21This is like a horror film #Kabul #Afghanistan4.2×06.6k2.4k233
36Sep 29, '241108 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. Afghan women and girls continue to be pushed out of the public eye and the world remains mostly muted #LetAfghanGirlsL4.0×228k3k88343
37Aug 18, '21Women, children, the elderly, disabled with thousands of bags outside the airport. Taliban footsoldier and his wip. Brave Afghan woman filming4.0×06.2k2.7k213
38Sep 7, '21Anger mounting on the streets of Kabul, people chanting "freedom" and "death to Pakistan". The demonstrators, many of them women, are in the centre of the Afghan capital #Afghanist3.7×05.9k2.1k69
39Aug 14, '21Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul today. Mass exodus. These are the lucky ones. I'm told, we don't want to go but we have no choice, we need to survive and so do our chil3.6×06.7k2.2k101
40Apr 29, '23Brave Afghan women are still protesting in the streets of Kabul - despite the Taliban crackdown on demonstrations. They continue to demand their basic human rights3.5×200k2.1k65313
41May 13, '251333 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. 873 days since the Taliban banned women from going to university. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn3.4×191k6.2k95787
42Aug 15, '21Front page of Daily Mail "After 20 years, Afghanistan abandoned in days" "what the hell did they all die for?"3.4×06.1k2.1k64
43Dec 22, '22A terrified Afghan female protester says “the Taliban terrorised us at our demonstration today, beat women up and lashed us. We’ve now fled but some women have been detained by the3.2×181k3.3k1.3k31
44Oct 1, '22Hazara students Marzia and Haajar were both killed in a suicide bombing at an education institute in Kabul yesterday. The United Nations says at least 35 people, most of them femal3.1×05.1k2k32
45Dec 8, '21I had the opportunity to interview India's top military commander #GeneralBipinRawat two years ago at the @raisinadialogue. My thoughts are with his family today3.0×08.8k56045
46Mar 23, '22Gut-wrenching image - father consoling daughter who turned up to school today only to learn the Taliban continue their ban on the education of girls in Afghanistan. pic via @bsarwa3.0×06.2k1.6k49
47May 10, '251331 days since teenage girls in Afghanistan have been banned from school by the Taliban. Afghan women and girls continue to be pushed out of the public eye in Afghanistan and the 3.0×167k3.8k68659
48Dec 25, '22Brave Afghan women continue to protest, chanting “education is our right” following the Taliban’s ban on women going to university2.9×165k2.8k7076
49May 21, '251441 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. 881 days since the Taliban banned women from going to university. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn2.9×162k2.7k37636
50Jun 13, '241000 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. Education isn’t a privilege, it is a basic human right - a right Afghan girls and women continue to be denied. #LetAfg2.9×161k2.5k1k31
51Sep 7, '21Kabul right now! Demonstrators in the centre of the Afghan capital #Afghanistan2.8×05.2k1.6k44
52Aug 13, '22Afghan women refuse to be silenced. They continue to protest, demanding their basic rights, one year after the Taliban swept to power2.8×05.8k1.5k33
53Aug 13, '22330 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. The Taliban continue to deprive Afghan women and girls their basic human rights but they will not be muted. Their brave2.8×05.6k1.5k48
54Aug 14, '21Afghan journalists, female judges, female members of parliament, human rights activists have all fought so hard for what they've achieved. They don't want to leave Afghanistan. Man2.6×05.3k1.5k42
55Jul 6, '21Indian journalist @RanaAyyub tells me Narendra Modi's government is intimidating and harassing journalists and she now faces jail time over a tweet. "They're coming after me becaus2.6×02k65041
56Sep 18, '21Schools reopened across Afghanistan today, for all boys. Teenage girls now being denied an education. This young girl asks "why shouldn't we go to school?" Life under Taliban rule 2.6×04.5k1.6k33
57May 7, '22A room full of men have decided that face veils for women will now be mandatory in Afghanistan. If she doesn’t comply, her male guardian could face three days in prison. #Ministryo2.6×03.5k1.5k74
58Aug 12, '21The sense of abandonment is so real in Afghanistan right now. So many women begging for help, afraid of a Taliban take over and what that would mean for them.2.5×04.5k1.6k56
59Aug 16, '21US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the mission in Afghanistan has been a success. What does failure look like? #Kabul2.5×04.4k1.4k95
60Aug 14, '22Extraordinary image from yesterday’s protest by these brave Afghan women. One year ago, Afghan girls went to school – Afghan women held positions of authority across Afghan society2.4×05k1.3k31
61Jun 23, '22Today I addressed the United Nations Security Council on the situation in Afghanistan, with a particular focus on my reporting about women and girls education2.3×06.3k53232
62Dec 14, '22"I'd like to spend 100% of my energy to stopping executions in Iran. Now I have to deal with this mess which takes a lot of energy of the European Parliament. This is a self made p2.3×03.8k1.8k11
63Aug 23, '21Just three hours from Kabul, Vice President @AmrullahSaleh2 and the anti-Taliban resistance fighters, play volleyball - Panjshir Valley, August 20212.3×05.5k75741
64Aug 15, '21When the Americans invaded in 2001, the Taliban did not control the entirety of the country. Twenty years later, as the US departs, the Taliban control all of Afghanistan2.3×04.3k1.3k77
65Sep 27, '21A scholarship programme for Afghan women to study at Oxford University is to be expanded. The @YaldaHakimFund is looking to expand the number of places it offers to Afghan women to2.2×04.6k815110
66Aug 16, '21Incase you missed it: Today Afghans were clinging to the undercarriage of US planes taxiing along the apron, then falling to their death, one by one, as the plane took off. The US 2.1×03.8k1.4k44
67Aug 15, '21The American ambassador has left Kabul2.1×04.1k99428
68Oct 2, '22Afghan women have been protesting in several cities across the country following an attack on an education centre in Kabul. The suicide bombing on Friday killed mostly female Hazar2.1×03.6k1.4k27
69Mar 23, '22Afghsn girls crying after discovering the ban on their education continues. The Taliban had promised they would be able to return to their schools today. A broken promise. Cruel to2.0×03.3k1.3k35
70Aug 16, '21An anti-Taliban coalition seems to be forming, including Vice President @AmrullahSaleh2 and Ahmad Massoud, son of Ahmad Shah Massoud - they are in Panjsher, about three hours drive2.0×04k88067
71Aug 14, '21Thinking about all the Afghan girls and women tonight who feel frightened and helpless2.0×04.4k85416
72Aug 12, '21Helplessness, desperation, the sense of abandonment in Afghanistan right now. So many messages tonight especially from young women pleading for help, afraid of what the future hold1.9×03.4k1.1k29
73Mar 8, '25On this International Women's Day I am thinking about the millions of Afghan women and girls who continue to have their basic human rights denied. Today it is 1267 days since the T1.9×105k3.6k1.1k63
74Aug 14, '21Afghans who received Scholarships from the UK government to study in the UK this year have now been told they will not be granted visas due to "administration issues". #Chevening1.8×02.1k1.3k58
75Aug 22, '21Update from the Anti-Taliban resistance - they tell me: Taliban ambushed in Andarab of Baghlan province. At least 300 Taliban fighters were killed. The group is lead by #AhmadMasso1.8×03.1k88255
76Sep 4, '21Brave Afghan women take to the streets of Kabul protesting for their rights. They've been beaten and injured but remain defiant #Afghanistan1.7×03.9k7709
77Mar 23, '22Holding back tears, this Afghan girl begs the Taliban to let her get an education "We want to study, please let us study." Heartbroken Afghan girls have been denied access to their1.7×03k1.1k28
78Sep 12, '21Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahman says he will not abandon the Afghan people "we are with you, don't worry, this too shall pass" following an Afghan singer's performance to mar1.7×03.7k77953
79Aug 13, '21"Pakistan is fully supporting the Taliban... Taliban is in a way an instrument of Pakistan's strategic depth in Afghanistan. Pakistan is very happy with Taliban advances; Pakistani1.6×02.1k87441
80Jun 1, '20When India went into lockdown, millions of migrant workers were left stranded, with no way of getting home. Some walked hundreds of km. In the past 2 mongths @SonuSood has helped t1.5×04.2k2824
81Aug 13, '21Pakistan's national security advisor @YusufMoeed says the regions that have fallen to the Taliban happen to be on the other side of Afghanistan, in the west and north... "even if y1.5×03k74130
82Mar 16, '22BREAKING: Mariupol's deputy mayor, tells the BBC that Russian bombing hit the city's drama theatre where civilians were being sheltered. He estimates that between 1,000 and 1,200 p1.5×01.9k1.2k35
83Sep 7, '21Afghan woman 2021 - female protesters tell us we are not the same women as 20 years and will not be submitted into submission. photo by @Reuters1.4×02.8k72725
84Aug 14, '21The Afghans forced to leave their homes, fleeing violence & persecution, do not want to become refugees. They do not want to beg for asylum, trapped in a camp on a border somew1.4×02.8k70913
85Aug 14, '21Terrified Kabul residents tell me they are hearing rumours Taliban are at the gates of Kabul. The women I've been speaking to say they are looking for safe houses #AfghanistanBurni1.4×02.4k81234
86Sep 19, '21Women in Kabul out on the streets again today demanding their rights to work and education #Afghanistan1.3×02.8k65211
87Oct 11, '22The father of Mahsa Amini - the 22-year-old whose death in police custody three weeks ago sparked protests across Iran tells me “All of the documents the authorities are showing ar1.2×01.9k94813
88May 22, '22One of the gains of the past twenty years was Afghanistan's vibrant and free press. Today, this is what the Taliban say freedom looks like. Female television presenter forced to co1.2×02k64127
89Dec 26, '21Day 100 of Taliban ban on girls returning to secondary school in Afghanistan. All boys are back at school but girls remain stuck at home #LetAfghanGirlsLearn1.2×02.1k78311
90Nov 23, '21Kabul rooftop view - Afghanistan1.2×03.5k9916
91May 26, '22"Fmr first lady Imelda Marcos has the image of excess - images of shoes, jewellery, real estate & paintings. He benefits from being attached to late Ferdinand Marcos. A signifi1.2×02.4k55947
92Apr 15, '22Why does she have to beg to go to school? Why is she being denied her basic rights? Education is not a privilege. It is a human right. #Taliban #Afghanistan1.1×02.4k5768
93Aug 17, '21In an audio message Vice President @AmrullahSaleh2 declares himself caretaker of the nation "I'm standing up for my country, the war is not over"1.1×02.1k55734
94Mar 26, '22Afghan girls won't give up on their right to an education. Will the world look away? #LetAfghanGirlsLearn1.1×02.5k5463
95Aug 14, '21"Where are all the feminists?" "Where are all the women's rights groups?" "Where are the humanitarians?" @LTGHRMcMaster says to me @BBCWorld #Afghanistan1.1×02k62914
96Sep 2, '21The battle for Panjshir - intense fighting tonight as the Taliban launch their biggest attack yet on the anti-Taliban resistance, just north-east of the capital. The fighters led b1.0×02.1k51511
97Aug 18, '21Kabul Airport tonight1.0×02.1k50721
98Oct 1, '22Extraordinary scenes in Iran, as the demonstrations continue #IranProtests0.9×02k5125
99Nov 22, '21So much to admire about @SerajMahbouba who remains in Afghanistan & says she will continue to fight for the rights of women. She called on Afghan women - describing them as her0.9×02.1k26314
100Mar 11, '22The team (plus hot water bottle) Western Ukraine0.7×02.1k498

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