Sun 29 August 2021:
According to the Taliban’s acting higher education minister, Afghan women would be allowed to attend university, but mixed classes will be prohibited under their rule.
The Islamist group that swept to power in mid-August after deposing the Western-backed government has promised to govern differently than they did in the 1990s, when girls and women were barred from attending school.
“The… people of Afghanistan will continue their higher education in the light of Sharia law in safety without being in a mixed male and female environment,” Abdul Baqi Haqqani, the Taliban’s acting minister for higher education said at a meeting with elders, known as a loya jirga, on Sunday.
He said the Taliban want to “create a reasonable and Islamic curriculum that is in line with our Islamic, national and historical values and, on the other hand, be able to compete with other countries.”
Haqqani said Afghan girls have the right to study but they cannot study in the same classrooms with boys.”
He added that a safe educational environment will be provided for female students.
Girls and boys will be separated in primary and secondary schools, as is already the case in Afghanistan’s deeply conservative society.
The new acting higher education minister said that universities will be reopened soon and that the salaries of lecturers and the ministry’s employees will be paid.
The group has promised to respect progress in women’s rights, but only if they are interpreted strictly according to Islamic law.
The Taliban have yet to announce their government, saying they would wait until after the departure of US and foreign forces.
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