CNN's guest on Talk Asia this weekend is Afghan women's rights activist Soraya Parlika. The show will air on Saturday at 8 pm and again on Sunday at 5 pm.

Parlika talks about triumphing over adverse conditions under Taliban rule, where she risked her life to provide education to women. Parlika also suffered imprisonment in 1979 and was tortured for organizing and leading a women's movement opposed to president Hafizullah Amin. Parlika also speaks of 27 November 2001, when 200 women assembled outside her Kabul apartment and lifted their burqas. Parlika tells host Lorraine Hahn: "It was a very emotional moment. After years the women of Afghanistan came out in the open. Under the Taliban we all wore burkas and did not know each other. Now we all know each other's faces."

Talk Asia, a half-hour regional chat show that airs every weekend features celebrity interviews, topical discussion and personal insight highlighting Asia's leading business, political and entertainment personalities. The show provides revealing interviews with the region's news and entertainment figures. Guests who have previously appeared include Asian pop singer Coco Lee, Olympics Gold Medalist Cathy Freeman, master illusionist David Copperfield and Irish band The Corrs.

The Perspectives Special at 6:30 pm on Sunday features Ridley Scotts of the critically acclaimed Black Hawk Dawn. It tells the story of how American involvement in the Somalia war in 1993 went awry. The setting is Mogadishu when an elite force of US Army Rangers and Delta commandos stormed the compound of Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid and resulted in enormous casualties.