Jade-Abresham (Silk Way): Taliban’s Ministry of Education announced that girl students aged 12 and over will not be allowed to attend school until the next announcement, on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. An announcement issued by the Minister of Educations says when the uniform of girls is designed according to Islam – Sharia and Afghan culture, then schoolgirls will be open.
In the past years, when the school bell rang to commence the academic year, girl and boy students attended school regularly after a special ceremony. However, this year thousands of Afghan girls were left distraught at school gates today after the Taliban’s last-minute decision to ban girls aged 12 and over, reversing their promises that education would be open to all.
Taliban while only days ago, a statement by the education ministry had urged “all students” to come to school.
Continuing to Keep closed the doors of schools to the girls by Taliban raised many criticisms. UNAMA in a tweet said, “The UN in Afghanistan deplores today’s reported announcement by the Taliban that they are further extending their indefinite ban on female students above the 6th grade being permitted to return to school.”
At the same time, a shocking video published on social media shows a girl student crying in front of a school and demanding the Taliban to open the school for the girls.
Amnesty International in a tweet said the decision of the Taliban was very worrying in terms of remaining closed continuing the school ban on the girls. Taliban decision based on not allowing girls to school has prodded serious reactions of the social media activist and they have asked people to prevent their sons from attending schools unless their daughters are allowed to attend school.
Sayed Batool Haidari, a well-known Afghan psychologist and university professor posted on her Facebook account saying, “With the announcement of Taliban to continue school ban on girls, prevent your sons from attending school in order to not leave alone the Afghan girls in such an unequal war.”
Taliban continue banning girls from school while they are pursuing national and international legitimacy.
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