Supporters of the radical Taliban movement that came to power in Afghanistan (banned in the Russian Federation) ordered not to let female teachers and elementary school students in schools. Hasht e Subh daily reported this on Wednesday, citing the statements of several female teachers in Kabul.
According to them, the management of several schools in the capital on Wednesday morning sent a warning to female employees, asking them not to come to work due to the Taliban's order. In addition, the parents of some schoolgirls in Kabul told the paper that their daughters were not allowed into the schools by armed Taliban fighters. Thus, according to Hasht e Subh, the Taliban are forbidding even the younger girls who were previously allowed to go to school.
Armed radicals also showed up at Kabul University on Wednesday morning: according to the newspaper, they were making sure that female students were not allowed into the educational institution.
On Tuesday, Ariana News reported that the Taliban ordered the suspension of classes for female students until further notice. On December 1, the acting education minister of Afghanistan said that education for women was part of a foreign culture brought to the country by Emir Amanullah (who ruled Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929) and Padishah Mohammed Zahir Shah (who ruled from 1933 to 1973).
Having established control over the entire territory of Afghanistan by early September 2021, the Taliban supporters began to introduce various, as they said, temporary restrictions in relation to women and girls, explaining this by the need to create an "appropriate Islamic environment" in the state. In particular, they eliminated the ministry of women's affairs that had existed for about 20 years, creating in its place a ministry of Islamic dawah (invitation, calling), orientation, command of the good and prohibition of the reprehensible, and obliged female TV hosts to wear hijab (headscarf).
In addition, classes in Afghan universities and schools were suspended after the Taliban came to power: junior school resumed classes more than a year later, on September 19 of this year. However, only boys and male teachers were allowed in. In March, the ministry of education in the interim Taliban government banned middle and high school girls from attending school.
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Based on materials from TASS