The Taliban say that Muslim clerics will meet up with to choose on the reopening of schools for girls above sixth grade as tension mounts on the team to permit girls’ secondary instruction in Afghanistan.
The Taliban spokesperson for the ministry of instruction, Aziz Ahmad Rayan, instructed VOA on Friday that clerics have been “given the duty” to get to a consensus on girls’ secondary schooling.
A senior Taliban member, Anas Haqqani, told a collecting in the southeastern province of Khost on Wednesday that an assembly of Muslim clerics will be termed to settle the problem of girls’ universities, without the need of mentioning the exact day for convening the gathering.
“The students would have conferences and consultations on the issue after Eid. Then this will be finalized, and there is a lot hope, God willing, that these meetings would have a optimistic consequence,” reported Rayan.
In accordance to Preserve the Children, about 80% of secondary college women are barred from attending faculty. The Taliban backed off at the last moment from a assure to reopen secondary faculties for ladies in March.
“The bulk of secondary schoolgirls – about 850,000 out of 1.1 million – are not attending lessons,” the report said.
The Taliban, who returned to power in August 2021, have imposed stringent restrictions on girls in Afghanistan, such as the ban on girls’ secondary instruction.
Right before the Taliban’s takeover, Afghan gals produced some achievements. About 3.5 million women, out of roughly 9 million college students, ended up going to college. About 30% of the civil servants and all around 28% of parliamentarians had been gals.
Afghan women’s rights activists in Afghanistan and all over the entire world have been protesting in opposition to the Taliban’s takeover, which has curbed the legal rights and freedoms they gained in excess of the previous 20 decades.
The Taliban, nevertheless, have reported that they are not in opposition to girls’ education and learning and that they are functioning on a approach to reopen the educational facilities in accordance with Islamic regulation.
In an interview with VOA’s Afghan service, Mohammad Naeem, the spokesperson for the Taliban’s diplomatic place of work in Doha, Qatar, repeated that the team is dedicated to reopening girls’ secondary schools.
“We are doing work on it. Ladies below the sixth grade are heading to school. Universities are open up. Female pupils are acquiring an education. This is a tiny situation, and it will be solved. But many others should not use this as a political instrument.”
But the stress has been mounting on the Taliban to reopen girls’ secondary schools.
Afghan clerics and activists throughout the place have been contacting on the Taliban to reopen girls’ secondary colleges.
A U.S. Condition Office spokesperson told VOA that the U.S., jointly with its companions and allies, has been speaking about the reopening of girls’ secondary universities with the Taliban.
“We get in touch with on the Taliban to get over whichever impediments exist to make it possible for women to accessibility education at all levels and honor their motivation to the Afghan men and women,” stated the spokesperson.