KABUL: Women who attend private Afghan University must wear abaya and niqab robes that cover most of the faces, the Taliban have ordered, and the class must be separated by gender – or at least divided by curtains.
In a long document issued by the Taliban education authority, they also ordered that female students would only be taught by other women, but if it was impossible then “parents” good characters can fill.
Decisions apply to private and university universities, which have mushroomed since the first rules of the Taliban ended in 2001.
During that period, girls and women were mostly excluded from education because the rules regarding the same classroom and their insistence must be accompanied by relatively men men every time they leave.
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There is no order for women wearing a comprehensive burqa in new regulations issued Saturday night, but Niqab effectively covers most of the faces, leaving only open eyes.
In recent years Burqas and Niqabs mostly vanished from Kabul streets, but look more often in small cities and cities.
The decision was present as a private university preparing to open on Monday.
“The university is required to recruit female teachers for female students based on their facilities,” said the decision, adding that men and women must use separate entrances and out.
If it is not possible to hire a female teacher, then the college “must try to hire old teachers who have good behavior notes”.
While women must now learn separately, they also have to end their lessons five minutes earlier than men to stop them from getting along outside.
They then had to stay in the waiting room until their male colleagues had left the building, according to the decree issued by the Taliban Higher Education Ministry.
“Practical, this is a difficult plan – we don’t have enough instructors or female classes to separate the girls,” said a university professor, who asked not to be named.
“But the fact that they allow girls to go to school and university is a big positive step,” he told AFP.
The new Afghan ruler has promised to be more accommodating than during their first task, which also came after years of conflict – the first Soviet invasion in 1979, and then the bleeding civil war.
They have promised a more “inclusive” government that represents complex Afghan ethnic makeup – although women cannot be included in the upper level.
Over the past 20 years, because the last Taliban in power, the level of university revenues increased dramatically, especially among women.
Before the Taliban returned in the Lightning military campaign, entering the capital of Kabul last month, women study with men and attend seminars with a male professor.
But a series of deadly attacks on educational centers in the past few years has triggered panic.
The Taliban denied being behind the attack, some of them were claimed by local chapters of Islamic countries.