Taliban security forces in Afghanistan's capital city are upholding a higher education ban for women by blocking access to university campuses.
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Rahimullah Nadeem, a spokesman for Kabul University, confirmed that classes for female students had stopped. He said some women were allowed to enter the campus for paperwork and administrative reasons, and that four graduation ceremonies were held Wednesday. They have banned girls from middle school and high school, barred women from most fields of employment and ordered them to wear head-to-toe clothing in public. Women are also banned from parks and gyms.
Qatar played a key role in facilitating the negotiations that led to the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan last year. It called on the “Afghan caretaker government” to review the ban in line with the teachings of Islam on women's education. Afghanistan's former president, Hamid Karzai, strongly condemned the university ban for women, in a Tweet.
“The issue of recognition is over,” he said. “The world is now trying to find an alternative. The world tried to interact more but they don’t let the world talk to them about recognition.”
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