Herat: Schools for girls from grade 7 to 12 have been reopened in the third largest city of Afghanistan, Herat, residents say Monday in what appears to be a local change in the Taliban bar in the girls.
Since seizing power almost three months ago, the Taliban was under international pressure to allow all girls to go to school.
There was no direct confirmation of Taliban officials that girls were allowed to return to Herat, a city in the west of the country, but the old man there said their girls had attended the last two days.
At least 26 schools for girls above class 6 have been reopened in Herat City, family said.
So far, no one is known to have been reopened elsewhere in this province, also called Herat.
Mohammad Rafiq Sediqqi, a resident of Herat, said his two daughters, in grade 8 and 9 were very happy to return.
He said he was relieved after weeks of worries.
“I suffered ten times more than my daughter when they couldn’t go to school,” he said.
The first time they came to power, from 1996 to 2001, The Hard-Line Taliban prohibits all women and women from school and work.
Growth in the presence and women of girls in the workforce is considered as one of the main achievements of the last 20 years under the government supported A.S.
Since the Taliban expelled the government on August 15, the international community has refused to recognize the Taliban government to fulfill the list of demands, including respecting the rights of women and schools for girls.
The new Taliban had permitted boys from all classes to return to school, but only allowed girls in elementary school and women at a private university to continue.
Teenage girls, aged 12 to 17 years, are not permitted back.
The new Taliban government has said that some forms of education for girls and women will be permitted, but have not been given a period of time or clarifying what education facilities will be permitted.
But residents are happy to only see their girls back in class.
Mohammad Asif said he had been angry for weeks that his 8th brother could not attend.
“I hope all girls can learn and educated to serve this nation with men,” he said.