Afghan universities must wait for Taliban to allow female students back, official says – National | 24CA News
Afghanistan’s universities are able to readmit feminine college students, however the ruling Taliban’s chief has the last word say on when that may occur — if it occurs in any respect, an training official stated Saturday.
The Taliban barred girls from campuses final December, triggering international outrage. Girls had been banned from faculty past sixth grade quickly after the Taliban returned to energy in August 2021. Afghanistan is the one nation on the earth with bans on feminine training.
Afghanistan’s increased training minister, Nida Mohammed Nadim, stated on the time that the college ban was obligatory to stop the blending of genders and since he believed some topics being taught violated the ideas of Islam.
He stated the ban, issued from the southern metropolis of Kandahar by the Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada, was in place till additional discover.
An adviser on the Higher Education Ministry, Molvi Abdul Jabbar, stated universities have been able to readmit feminine college students as quickly as Akhundzada offers the order for the ban to be lifted. He was unable to say when or if that will occur.
Akhundzada “ordered that the universities be closed, so they closed,” he instructed The Associated Press. “When he says they are open, they will open the same day. All our leaders are in favor of (restarting girls’ education), even our ministers are in favor of it.”
Jabbar stated he final met Akhundzada seven or eight years in the past. He fought alongside him in opposition to the Russians in the course of the 10-year Soviet struggle in Afghanistan and has been a part of the Taliban for 27 years.
“It is only because of our obedience (to Akhundzada) that we are following his orders,” he stated.
His feedback are one other signal of diverging opinions inside the Taliban in regards to the decision-making course of and Akhundzada’s edicts, with chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid transferring rapidly to reject experiences of division. They additionally present the authority that Akhundzada wields over the Taliban.
Nadim had offered the ban as a brief measure whereas options have been discovered to repair points round gender segregation, course materials and gown codes. He stated universities would reopen for girls as soon as they have been resolved.
The Taliban made related guarantees about highschool entry for women, saying courses would resume for them as soon as “technical issues” round uniforms and transport have been sorted out, however women are nonetheless shut out of lecture rooms.
Jabbar stated the training sector was because it was earlier than.
“Everything is ready in advance, whether it’s school or university studies. It may be that the (start) times are different, boys in the morning and in the afternoon there will be girls. Or there will be girls in the morning and boys in the afternoon.”
His feedback come days forward of the second anniversary of the Taliban’s return to energy.
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