Afghan star dons her flak jacket

Aryana Sayeed, singer and judge on Afghan Star, a version of Pop Idol, has to wear a flak jacket while travelling around Kabul.

In many ways, she represents everything that the Taliban and other hardliners don't want for a modern Afghanistan - women's rights, freedom of expression and the determination to hang on to the gains of the past 15 years.

She is now a prime Taliban target.

Yalda Hakim's Our World report Terror at the TV Station can be seen on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News (click for transmission times). Readers in the UK can watch it after 04:30 GMT on Saturday on the BBC iPlayer.