Oct. 7 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Afghan Taliban government has assured that it continues to work to resolve as soon as possible the return of girls to the country’s secondary schools in the face of skepticism from the international community and notables from local tribes, who have spent months advocating the right to schooling of minors, suspended after the fundamentalist movement came to power.
“The country is making efforts to address this issue and, with the help of God, we will solve these problems soon,” said the deputy information minister and usual spokesman for the Taliban, Zabiulá Muyahid, in comments collected by the Afghan chain Tolo News.
On the contrary, notables of the tribes of the province of Patkia, in the east of the country, have lamented to the same media the Taliban’s lack of will to reincorporate the minors.
“The girls have been at home for months, disappointed. We must at least create separate schools so that girls and boys can learn,” said Haji Awal Jan in comments to Tolo News from this province, the scene of an unusual protest last month. of dozens of girls after the Taliban ordered the immediate closure of several educational centers in the province that reopened their doors without the permission of the fundamentalists.
“Girls should have the right to study for this country to advance,” lamented Ahmad Faizi, another tribal leader in this province in the east of the country.
The Taliban announced at the end of May the creation of a committee to deal with the possible reopening of classes for female students in secondary and higher courses, following international criticism of the continued closure of these classrooms since their return to power.
The group, which has established a government marked by the lack of women and representatives of other political groups, has faced criticism for the closure of educational centers and the exclusion of female students from them, amid a battery of measures discrimination against women that drive them away from their jobs and govern aspects of their daily lives.
