New Delhi: The Taliban’s acting higher education minister, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, said graduates for the past 20 years were of no use, Khama Press Agency reported.
Abdul Baqi Haqqani made this statement at a meeting with university lecturers in Kabul.
Haqqani was talking about graduates who had studied during the non-Taliban era, when they were fighting the US-backed governments of Hamid Karzai and Ashraf Ghani. He further said that they should hire teachers who can pass on the ‘values to be inculcated in the country and their talents in Afghanistan’s future’ to the students and future generations.
However, for Afghanistan, the last two decades are considered one of the most important and prosperous eras in the level of education in the country.
Haqqani has made similar controversial comments in the past, after the Taliban came to power, saying that masters and PhD holders of modern studies are less valuable than those who have studied in madrassas and religious studies in Afghanistan. Is.
The Taliban also barred girls from attending secondary schools. Teenage Afghan girls were not allowed to return to school as classes reopened across the country in September for the first time since the Taliban came to power in August. Now the Taliban have allowed girls up to grade six to go to school, but they will be taught in separate classes from boys.
Some private universities have also been allowed to open classes for girls, however, most of the students are staying at home out of fear. The universities of Afghanistan are controlled by a separate ministry from the Ministry of Education.
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