Kabul (BLAZETRENDS) the girls.
In a letter sent to the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand, the Afghan Ministry of Education orders “to suspend all educational activities until the projects and activities of educational institutions are reviewed, and controversial issues are resolved at the national level” starting this Monday. .
For this purpose, the Taliban have appointed a committee of experts whose objective will be to analyze and inform the authorities about the different projects and educational activities that the institutions in these two provinces provide.
Kandahar Education Department spokesman Mutwakul Ahmed confirmed the authorities’ instruction to suspend regional activities and all educational institutions until further notice.
The Pashtunwali Social Code
This new suspension comes two weeks after fundamentalists prevented women UN employees from working, and adds to the long list of vetoes against the education system since they came to power on August 15, 2021.
Afghan women have been the main target of the deterioration in the quality of life with a plethora of restrictions ranging from the imposition of the veil, segregation by sex in public places or the obligation to be accompanied by a male relative on long journeys.
The fall of Kabul also meant the suspension of female secondary education until, supposedly, its contents were adapted to Islamic law, a ban that was extended last December to universities throughout the country.
The reality that Afghans live today is increasingly similar to the time of the first Taliban regime between 1996 and 2001, when based on a rigid interpretation of Islam and its strict social code known as Pashtunwali, women were prohibited from attending schools and confined women in the home.