New Delhi: Taliban has effectively banned the girls from secondary education in Afghanistan, by ordering high school to reopen only for boys.
Edict made Afghanistan the only country on earth to put half the population from getting secondary education, Guardian reported.
Girls were not mentioned in Friday’s announcement, which meant a boy would return to their table next week after a one-month hiatus, while their sisters would still be trapped at home, the newspaper said in the report.
The Taliban Education Ministry said the secondary school class for boys in seventh grade to 12 will continue on Saturday, the beginning of the Afghan Sunday.
“All teachers and male students must attend their educational institutions,” said the statement.
The future of girls and women, trapped at home because the Taliban took control, not resolved, the Guardian report said.
In a further mark that the Taliban government has recently been announced to tighten the restrictions on women, the former ministry of women built in Kabul has been submitted to the newly established Ministry for the prevention of virtues and promotion.
This was the feared group enforcer in the 1990s, which was assigned by beating women who violated the bar on everything starting from exiting in public without the guardian of men for the code dressed in prescription who even banned the high heels, the report said.
The decision about education has an echo of the tactics feared the Taliban used in the 1990s, when they last ruled Afghanistan, to bar girls from school without issuing a formal ban.