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Afghanistan: Taliban prevents girls from returning to high school

The school year opened, but only boys and male teachers were allowed to return to post-primary educational institutions.

In elementary schools, girls study separately.

"Why am I alive?" Asked a girl who dreamed of becoming a lawyer.

The Ministry of Women's Affairs has been converted into a morality police structure, whose role is to enforce Sharia law

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Sunday, 19 September 2021, 08:39

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In video: Taliban official: Women should not work alongside men (Photo: Reuters)

The Taliban prevented students from returning to high schools across Afghanistan, with only male students and teachers allowed to return to classes. In elementary schools, students study separately. The extremist Islamist organization, which seized power last month, said it was making a decision on girls' post-primary education without setting a timetable.

"All male teachers and students should be present in their educational institutions," said a statement issued ahead of the start of the school year, which opened yesterday (Saturday).

Taliban officials have promised in recent weeks that unlike the days of the previous regime in the 1990s, girls and women will be allowed to study and work in accordance with Sharia law. So far, however, women have been required not to return to work until the security situation improves, and Taliban men have beaten women who have demonstrated against the new government he has set up over male purity.

Without post-primary education, women in the country will not be able to be admitted in the future to universities that have already begun to separate students from students and formulate a new dress code.

(Photo: Reuters)

Students and their parents expressed pessimism about their future under the new-old rule.

"I'm so worried about my future," said one student, who dreamed of becoming a lawyer.

"Everything looks very black. Every day I wake up and ask myself why I live? Should I stay home and wait for someone to knock on the door and ask to marry me? Is that the purpose of being a woman?"

The father of the same student said that "my mother was ignorant, and my father harassed her about it all the time and read non-idiotically. I do not want my daughter to be like my mother."

Another 16-year-old high school student from Kabul said it was a "painful day."

"I wanted to be a doctor, and my dream is gone. I don't think they will let me go back to school. Even if the high schools reopen, they don't want women to be educated."

(Photo: Reuters)

In another development that testifies to the new situation in Afghanistan, the office that was in charge of women's affairs in the previous pro-Western government was turned over to the Taliban morality police headquarters.

Workers in the capital Kabul replaced the signs in the office last Friday, and former workers said they were locked outside the building.

"The Ministries for Prayers and Guidance and for the Advancement of Morality and Crime Prevention," read a new sign posted in the building.

Office workers said they tried to get to work for several weeks, but were told to return home.

The building was finally locked last Thursday.

"I'm the only breadwinner in my family," said a local worker.

"When there is no office, what will the Afghan women do?"

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