The Taliban open an internal debate after criticism of their latest ban against female education, according to media

Dec. 23 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The government of the Taliban movement has opened an internal debate to discuss the harsh criticism received of its latest ban on preventing university education for women in Afghanistan, which has received virtually unanimous condemnation from the international community, including a large part of the Islamic world. .

According to sources from the Taliban Ministry of the Interior to Tolo News, the current acting head of the portfolio, Sirajudin Haqqani, as well as the acting Defense Minister, Mohamad Yaqub Mujahid, have privately discussed the possibility of even reversing the decision, announced this week.

Both will travel in the near future to the province of Kandahar, home of the supreme leader of the fundamentalist movement, Hibatulá Ajunzadá, “to discuss this issue in the company of the country’s religious leaders,” according to these sources.

In recent hours, countries such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia have condemned the Taliban’s decision, which “is neither Islamic nor humane”, in the words of the Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu.

The Saudi Ministry, for its part, expressed its “astonishment and regret” at the denial of university education to Afghan women, a decision that “has surprised all Islamic countries”, including some as close to the Taliban as Qatar.

In response, the Taliban’s Minister of Higher Education, Mullah Neda Mohamed Nadim, has called on the international community not to interfere in Afghanistan’s “internal affairs” following the ban on women in the country’s universities.

“We appeal to them not to interfere in our internal affairs. On the one hand, they ask to guarantee the rights of our sisters, while on the other they impose restrictions on Muslims in the country,” Nadim alleged in statements to the RTA chain collected by the Tolo television channel.

Nadim has justified the decision of the authorities established by the Taliban as a result of the fact that women arrive from the provinces to the universities without male partners, as well as that there is a “lack of observance” in women’s clothing, in relation to the obligation to wear the veil.