Her expulsion was seen as a reaction to her reports on the Taliban's destruction of the Buddhist statues at Bamiyan.
[4] It said that since there is no independent domestic press in Afghanistan many Afghans relied on the short-wave broadcasts the BBC transmitted in Dari and Pashto.
Clark continued to report on Afghanistan, from outside its borders, and returned to Kabul on 15 November 2001, after the Taliban retreat.
[5] In September 2002, Clark was able to interview Wakil Muttawakil, the former Taliban Foreign Minister.
In May 2010, Clark left the BBC and joined the research group Afghanistan Analysts Network.