Shokufa Tahiri says the prospect of the Taliban's return frightens her family.
"My dad was an anti Taliban activist and that put him on death row and because we belong to different faith and different ethnic group, particularly an ethnic group that Taliban had targeted and were really despising us. They were counting our own existence a crime in Afghanistan and really the circumstances at the time forced us to flee, so we actually said good bye to everything. We left everything behind just to seek safety."
"The upcoming election, in the light of the fact that there has been a lot of attacks on civilians, the Taliban are basically having no mercy on civilians. They are basically spilling peoples blood. My hopes are that the elections go ahead fairly and transparently and I hope that anybody who takes office implements a good governance. The rights that has been gained, the developments that has been achieved is very fragile and can be taken away very soon. It really scares me that Afghanistan would be heading to a direction where Taliban would take a strong hold and ultimately take Afghanistan back to its very very horrible past."
"Ultimately its the majority of Afghan people that want peace, that want stability, that wants a democratic government, that wants a transparent government. The majority of the Afghan people are tired of war."
"Australia has given me a second chance in life and I owe all that to my Dad and my Mum. One of my ambition is to one day go back to Afghanistan and contribute because you know by being through experiences that I have, by seeing so much injustice in Afghanistan happening, as a sane Afghan I feel obligated to do something."
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(see the attached video for the extended interview with Shokufa)
