Women allowed to study but no coeducation in Afghanistan: Taliban acting education minister

The Taliban's acting higher education minister, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, said on Sunday that women will be allowed to study at universities but there will be a ban on coeducation under their role.

Afghan women will be allowed to study at university but there would be a ban on mixed classes under their rule, the Taliban's acting higher education minister said on Sunday. The hardline Islamist group that stormed to power in mid-August after ousting the Western-back government have vowed to rule differently compared to their 1990s stint when girls and women were banned from education.