Universities Reopen In Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan But Women Still Banned
NDTV
The decision to ban women from educational institutes was announced by the Taliban officials in December and it drew widespread condemnation from foreign governments and the United Nations.
Afghanistan universities reopened today after the winter break, but only men returned to the institutions, with the Taliban's ban on women in higher education still in place, as per a report in Al-Jazeera.
The decision to ban women from educational institutes was announced by the Taliban officials in December and it drew widespread condemnation from foreign governments and the United Nations.
"You all are informed to immediately implement the mentioned order of suspending education of females until further notice," Minister for Higher Education Neda Mohammad Nadeem said in a letter issued to all government and private universities last year.
The Taliban officials were also asked to "immediately" withdraw the choice by the UN mission in Afghanistan. However, nothing fruitful was achieved out of it.
