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Politics
Dominic Giannini

No forsaking Afghanistan a year on: Senate

Senator Fatima Payman says her office hears news of atrocities and injustices in Afghanistan daily. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Australia's first Afghan Muslim woman in parliament has called on the nation not to forsake Afghanistan a year on from the fall of the capital Kabul to the Taliban.

Senator Fatima Payman's father arrived in Australia after fleeing the Taliban in 1999, and 23 years later the first hijab-wearing parliamentarian spoke of the perils of allowing a resurgent Taliban to strip the rights of the Afghan people.

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