Taliban orders Afghan universities to ban women in latest blow to rights – National | 24CA News
Women are banned from personal and public universities in Afghanistan with fast impact and till additional discover, a Taliban authorities spokesman mentioned Tuesday.
The transfer marks the newest edict cracking down on their rights and freedoms.
The choice was introduced after a gathering of the Taliban authorities.
Despite initially promising a extra average rule and ladies’s and minority rights, the Taliban have extensively carried out their harsh interpretation of Islamic legislation, or Sharia.
They have banned women from center faculty and highschool, restricted ladies from most employment and ordered them to put on head-to-toe clothes in public. Women are additionally banned from parks and gymnasiums.
A letter shared by the spokesman for the Ministry of Higher Education, Ziaullah Hashmi, tells personal and public universities to implement the ban as quickly as doable and to tell the ministry as soon as the ban is in place.
Hashmi additionally tweeted the letter from his account and confirmed its contents in a message to The Associated Press.
The college ban comes weeks after Afghan women took their highschool commencement exams, though they’ve been banned from school rooms because the Taliban took over the nation final 12 months.
