Afghan schools restart, with girls barred for third year running
The Peninsula
Kabul, Afghanistan: Schools in Afghanistan opened for the new academic year on Wednesday, with girls lamenting being banned from joining secondary lev...
Kabul, Afghanistan: Schools in Afghanistan opened for the new academic year on Wednesday, with girls lamenting being banned from joining secondary-level classes for a third year in a row.
Taliban authorities barred girls from secondary school in March 2022, after surging back to power in 2021 and imposing an austere vision of Islam with curbs the United Nations labels "gender apartheid".
On Wednesday morning, uniformed boys carried black and white Taliban flags as they lined the entrance of Kabul's Amani school, where local officials arrived for the ceremonial start of the school year.
But 18-year-old Kabul resident Zuhal Shirzad had to stay home when the school bell rang.
"Every year when my brother went to school, I felt very disappointed," she told AFP.
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