The Taliban government has pledged to reopen high schools for womenwho were prevented from returning to class for over a year because they said the system was not adapted to Shariah or Islamic law, which few people believe anymore.
The new education minister, conservative scholar Habibullah Agha, said this week while touring the central province of Bamiyan that pupils high school students will be able to return to the classroom as soon as the “special mechanism” works in them.
“We will not plan (his return) without a mechanism, as the previous government did, allowing boys and girls to be together (in class). The Islamic system does not allow this,” the minister said on Tuesday during one of his speeches in Bamiyan.
Saifuddin Mohammadi, director of culture and information of Bamyan, confirmed this Wednesday to EFE the promises made by Minister of educationgiving hope to students that schools (high school) will reopen soon once the existing problems in the sector are resolved.”
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AT pupils in the provinces, however, all of this seems to them an “justification,” an argument they have been repeating since they came to power in August 2021, when in fact there has always been gender segregation in the classes.
“These are just excuses” if they really cared about women’s education, they would have solved this problem within the last year, student Nazo told EFE, who also explained that there were no more mixed classes in the pre-Taliban period.
“In the previous government, we didn’t study together either, we studied at different schools and, if it was the same thing, then at different times,” the girl emphasized.
Since coming to power over a year ago Taliban introduced successive restrictions on women in persistent violation of their rights, such as segregation in public places, wearing a veil, or the obligation to accompany a male relative on long trips.
Though they promised they’d changed Taliban replicated the behavior of their previous regime between 1996 and 2001 when, based on a harsh interpretation of Islam and its strict social code known as pastunwali, they banned female attendance to schools and imprisoned women at home.
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