Teachers and students from three high schools around Afghanistan’s capital Kabul said girls had excitedly returned to campuses on Wednesday morning, only to be ordered to go home.

“We all got disappointed and we all became totally hopeless when the principal told us, she was also crying,” said a student, not named for security reasons.

When the Taliban last ruled Afghanistan, from 1996 to 2001, female education and most employment for women was banned.

The international community has made the education of girls a key demand for any future recognition of the Taliban administration, which took over the country in August 2021 as foreign forces withdrew.

The United Nations and the United States condemned the school closures on Wednesday.
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The Taliban’s Ministry of Education had announced last week that schools for all students, including girls, would open around the country on Wednesday after months of restrictions.

On Tuesday evening, a Ministry of Education spokesman released a video congratulating all students on their return to class.

However, on Wednesday, a ministry notice said schools for girls would be closed until a plan was drawn up in accordance with Islamic law and Afghan culture, according to Bakhtar News, a government news agency.

“We inform all girls’ high schools and those schools that are having female students above class six that they are off until the next order,” said the notice.

A Taliban administration source confirmed to Reuters that schools for girls in Kabul would be closed for now, without elaborating.

The Taliban is seeking to run the country according to its interpretation of Islamic law, while at the same time accessing billions of dollars in aid that it needs to stave off widespread poverty and hunger.

“The UN in Afghanistan deplores today’s reported announcement by the Taliban that they are further extending their indefinite ban on female students above the 6th grade being permitted to return school,” the United Nations’ Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in a statement.

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roughbarked said:

Taliban’s Ministry of Education had announced last week that schools for all students, including girls, would open around the country on Wednesday after months of restrictions. On Tuesday evening, a Ministry of Education spokesman released a video congratulating all students on their return to class. However, on Wednesday, a ministry notice said schools for girls would be closed until a plan was drawn up in accordance with Islamic law and Afghan culture, according to Bakhtar News, a government news agency.

“The UN in Afghanistan deplores today’s reported announcement by the Taliban that they are further extending their indefinite ban on female students above the 6th grade being permitted to return school,” the United Nations’ Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in a statement.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-23/afghan-students-tears-taliban-orders-girls-schools-remain-closed/100934526

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roughbarked said:

Taliban’s Ministry of Education had announced last week that schools for all students, including girls, would open around the country on Wednesday after months of restrictions. On Tuesday evening, a Ministry of Education spokesman released a video congratulating all students on their return to class. However, on Wednesday, a ministry notice said schools for girls would be closed until a plan was drawn up in accordance with Islamic law and Afghan culture, according to Bakhtar News, a government news agency.

“The UN in Afghanistan deplores today’s reported announcement by the Taliban that they are further extending their indefinite ban on female students above the 6th grade being permitted to return school,” the United Nations’ Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in a statement.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-23/afghan-students-tears-taliban-orders-girls-schools-remain-closed/100934526

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After the Taliban initially said that no countries had offered to help with the recovery, both India and China said they were willing to help. A spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry said it was ready to provide disaster relief assistance “according to Afghanistan’s needs and within its capacity”. Meanwhile, India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said the country had delivered 1,000 family tents to Kabul and was moving 15 tonnes of food material to Kunar, with more relief material to be sent from India starting on Tuesday.

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The Taliban government has confirmed that it attacked Pakistani troops in multiple mountainous locations on the northern border. A Taliban spokesman said 58 Pakistani military personnel had been killed in what it called “an act of retaliation”. It claimed Pakistan had violated Afghan airspace and bombed a market inside its border on Thursday. Pakistan has disputed that figure, saying 23 of its armed forces’ members had died and claiming that “200 Taliban and affiliated terrorists have been neutralized”.

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