Diamond Member Pelican Press 0 Posted January 19, 2025 Diamond Member Share Posted January 19, 2025 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Taliban deputy tells leader there is no excuse for education bans on Afghan women and girls A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher Abbas Stanikzai, political deputy at the Foreign Ministry, made the remarks in a speech on Saturday in southeastern Khost province. He told an audience at a religious school ceremony there was no reason to deny education to women and girls, “just as there was no justification for it in the past and there shouldn’t be one at all.” Trusted news and daily delights, right in your inbox See for yourself — The Yodel is the go-to source for daily news, entertainment and feel-good stories. The government has barred females from education after sixth grade. Last September, there were reports authorities had also This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up for women. In Afghanistan, women and girls can only be treated by female doctors and health professionals. Authorities have yet to confirm the medical training ban. “We call on the leadership again to open the doors of education,” said Stanikzai in a video shared by his official account on the social platform X. “We are committing an injustice against 20 million people out of a population of 40 million, depriving them of all their rights. This is not in Islamic law, but our personal choice or nature.” Stanikzai was once the This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up in talks that led to the complete withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan. It is not the first time This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up has said that women and girls deserve to have an education. He made similar remarks in September 2022, a year after schools closed for girls and months and before the This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . But the latest comments marked his first call for a change in policy and a direct appeal to Taliban leader This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . Ibraheem Bahiss, an analyst with Crisis Group’s South Asia program, said Stanikzai had periodically made statements calling girls’ education a right of all Afghan women. “However, this latest statement seems to go further in the sense that he is publicly calling for a change in policy and questioned the legitimacy of the current approach,” Bahiss said. In the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, earlier this month, Nobel Peace Prize laureate This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up urged ******* leaders to challenge the Taliban on women and girls’ education. She This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up at a conference hosted by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the ******* World League. The U.N. has said that recognition is almost impossible while This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up remain in place and women can’t go out in public without a male guardian. No country recognizes the Taliban as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan, but countries like This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up have been building ties with them. India has also been developing relations with Afghan authorities. In Dubai earlier this month, a meeting between India’s top diplomat, Vikram Mistri, and Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi showed their deepening cooperation. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up #Taliban #deputy #tells #leader #excuse #education #bans #Afghan #women #girls This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/194968-taliban-deputy-tells-leader-there-is-no-excuse-for-education-bans-on-afghan-women-and-girls/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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