Women will return to secondary colleges in Afghanistan, however solely after ‘secure surroundings’ is about up, Taliban tells media

The Taliban has stated that ladies can return to secondary colleges solely after Afghanistan’s militant-led authorities creates a safe surroundings for them. Up to now, solely boys have been allowed to renew their research.

“We’re not towards schooling of women, however we’re nonetheless engaged on mechanisms of how their faculty attendance might be attainable,” Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid informed Germany’s Der Spiegel journal. 

Mujahid stated secure surroundings and transportation should be assured for feminine college students earlier than they’re allowed again in lecture rooms. He stated authorized students should put together a report on find out how to arrange a safe surroundings for women and girls in schooling and employment. 

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Ladies and ladies had been banned from schooling and holding jobs and had been compelled to cowl themselves from head to toe in public when militants first got here to energy in Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001.

Shortly after capturing Kabul final month, the Taliban promised that ladies would get pleasure from extra freedoms than in the course of the group’s earlier rule. Nonetheless, solely boys had been allowed to renew their research when secondary colleges reopened on Saturday.

The militants dismantled the nation’s Ministry of Ladies’s Affairs this week, changing it with a Ministry of Promotion of Advantage and Prevention of Vice. The identical identify was used within the 1990s by the authority tasked with punishing ladies who disobeyed harsh restrictions imposed on them.

Ladies have held a number of protests in Kabul, demanding that the Taliban assure them the identical rights as males. The rallies had been dispersed by the militants. 

The Taliban was knocked from energy in 2001 when the US led the invasion of Afghanistan as a part of Washington’s international ‘Warfare on Terror’, launched in response to the 9/11 terrorist assaults. The conflict grew to become the longest in America’s historical past, leading to practically twenty years of violence and occupation that did not deliver peace and stability to the nation.

The militants reconquered practically the entire of Afghanistan in a sweeping offensive that ran concurrent to the ultimate stage of the withdrawal of Western forces. The final American troops left the nation on the finish of August.

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