Taliban security forces in the Afghan capital enforced a higher education ban for women by blocking their access to universities, with video obtained by AP showing women weeping and consoling each other outside one campus in Kabul.
“Do not make education political!” they said. “Once again university is banned for women, we do not want to be eliminated!”
A letter shared by the spokesman for the Ministry of Higher Education, Ziaullah Hashmi, on Tuesday told private and public universities to implement the ban as soon as possible and to inform the ministry once the ban is in place. Neighboring Pakistan said its position on the issue of women’s education has been “clear and consistent.”
“Depriving girls of this right is regrettable,” Abdallah said in a Tweet. He urged the country’s Taliban leadership to reconsider the decision. Saeedi said he believes most Afghans favor female education because they consider learning to be a religious command contained in the Quran.He said the decision to bar women from universities was likely made by a handful of senior Taliban figures, including the leader Hibatullah Akhunzada, who are based in the southwestern city of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban movement.
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