Oct. 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –
A spokesman for the authorities established by the Taliban in Afghanistan has assured that the return of girls to schools is “inevitable” and has stated that the Government is making efforts so that women can work in a “proper environment”.
“Women work in health, higher education, in the Police or in banks,” explained the Deputy Minister of Information, Zabihulá Muyahid, in the presence of women in different sectors of society, according to the Tabnak news portal.
In this regard, he stressed that the problem of sixth grade girls not being able to access education “will be resolved soon”, while specifying that “the Taliban government does not want to cause differences” internally, for which all members “must agree” on this decision.
The Taliban authorities have faced criticism for the closure of educational centers and the exclusion of female students from them, amid a battery of discriminatory measures against women that distance them from their jobs and govern aspects of their daily lives. .
The Taliban have installed a government marked by the lack of women and representatives of other political groups. Despite this, the deputy prime minister of Afghanistan, Abdulsalam Hanafi, stressed in October that this Executive “is inclusive” and added that the fundamentalist group has tried to incorporate all ethnic groups and social sectors into the new authorities.
Muyahid, in the face of this criticism from the international community, defended this idea on Friday along the same lines, affirming that many women work in government offices. “By creating a suitable work environment, women will also work in other offices,” she added.
This same Friday, several sources on condition of anonymity have transferred to the Jaama news agency that Taliban government officials have expelled about 50 students from one of the residences of the Faculty of Education of the University of Kabul, the capital of the country.
According to these sources, officials clean and disappear the personal belongings of the students in their absence, which has caused fear and confusion in the students. A spokesman for the Ministry of Higher Education, Maulvi Ahmad Taqi, confirmed these expulsions and specified that “universities have their own methods of maintaining order and discipline.”
The aforementioned agency reports that a group of students from the same residence were unable to hold demonstrations to protest the attack on an educational center in the Afghan city of Kabul because the students suffered “poisoning.”
The ‘Kaj’ educational center, which is located in the Dasht e Barchi area, in the west of the capital, where the Hazara and Shiite minorities reside, suffered a bomb attack last September in which 19 people lost their lives. and 27 others were injured.
