The Taliban in Afghanistan has outlawed co-education, just days after promising to preserve women’s rights in the country. ‘Men are not allowed to teach girls,’ claimed Shaikh Abdul Baqi Haqqani, the Taliban’s newly designated Higher Education Minister.
The Taliban has announced a new diktat that men would not be able to teach girl students in Afghanistan from now on, after announcing a ban on coeducation. According to a report by Khaama Press, Taliban officials in Afghanistan’s western Herat province decreed last week that girls at universities would no longer be allowed to sit in the same classes as boys.
This is the Taliban’s first fatwa since regaining control in Afghanistan following the fall of the Ashraf Ghani-led government. The directive came a day after Shaikh Abdulbaqi Haqqani was named Afghanistan’s interim minister of higher education.
The decision was made after a meeting between Taliban leaders, private institution owners, and university instructors, according to reports. The owners of private institutions are said to have opposed to the Taliban decree, claiming that there are insufficient female lecturers.
The Chenab Times News Desk