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Last Update: January 10, 2023, 10:30 AM IST
An Afghan girl reads a book at her home in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan (Image: Reuters)
Taliban leaders are aware of the economic crisis that Afghanistan is currently witnessing and the need for assistance to prevent civilians from dying due to starvation and poor health
The Taliban tried to save face this week by asking officials to reopen primary schools for women. according to a report by india today quoting a tweet Gauharshad MediaTaliban officials asked the authorities to reopen primary schools for girls and said that girls can attend the schools by following the Islamic dress code.
The Taliban mandate is to sell new wine in old bottles as earlier girls were allowed to attend primary schools but girls were barred from attending senior secondary and higher secondary schools and women were banned from studying at the university level went.
The Taliban regime had previously said it would allow primary schools from grades I to VI to run.
The directive coincides with the visit of Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), to Kabul. Taliban officials have realized that they need international support and assistance to prevent civilians from dying due to starvation and poor health.
Eggland made it clear on Monday that the NRC would not work without women personnel. The Taliban have banned women from working in government and private offices, and Egeland said they cannot and will not operate without women in their nongovernmental organizations in Afghanistan.
“I’m here Afghanistan to meet with Taliban leaders and try to find a way out of the current ban on our women workers, which is crippling all of our humanitarian work in Afghanistan,” Egland was quoted by the Afghanistan-based tolo news,
On Sunday, Markus Potzel, the UN deputy special envoy for Afghanistan, met with Neda Mohammad Nadeem, the acting minister of higher education, who said the Taliban had not decided to impose a complete ban on women’s education and would discuss it later. The issue has been postponed for the time being.
A spokesman for the ministry said, “We ask the international community not to make any requests to us that are against the Sharia.”
Turkish scholar Mohammad Gormaz, who is also the president of the Institute of Islamic Thought, told tolo news That the ban on female education has become a problem for the entire Islamic world.
Gormaz said, “You can say that this is our internal matter and nobody should speak about it, but now it has become the problem of all Muslims.” tolo news,
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