KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s universities are able to readmit feminine college students, however the ruling Taliban‘s chief has the final word say on when that may occur - if it occurs in any respect, an training official stated Saturday.

The Taliban barred ladies from campuses final December, triggering world outrage. Girls had been banned from college past sixth grade quickly after the Taliban returned to energy in August 2021. Afghanistan is the one nation on the planet with bans on feminine training.

Afghanistan‘s larger training minister, Nida Mohammed Nadim, stated on the time the college ban was needed to stop the blending of genders and since he believed some topics being taught violated the rules of Islam.

He stated the ban, issued from the southern metropolis of Kandahar by the Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada, was in place till additional discover.

An adviser on the Higher Education Ministry, Molvi Abdul Jabbar, stated universities had been able to readmit feminine college students as quickly as Akhundzada offers the order for the ban to be lifted. He was unable to say when or if that might occur.

Akhundzada “ordered that the universities be closed, so they closed,” he informed The Associated Press. “When he says they are open, they will open the same day. All our leaders are in favor of (restarting girls’ education), even our ministers are in favor of it.”

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Jabbar stated he final met Akhundzada seven or eight years in the past. He fought alongside him in opposition to the Russians in the course of the 10-year Soviet battle in Afghanistan and has been a part of the Taliban for 27 years.

“It is only because of our obedience (to Akhundzada) that we are following his orders,” he stated.

His feedback are one other signal of diverging opinions throughout the Taliban concerning the decision-making course of and Akhundzada’s edicts, with chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid shifting shortly to reject reviews of division. They additionally present the authority that Akhundzada wields over the Taliban.

Minister Nadim had introduced the ban as a brief measure whereas options had been discovered to repair points round gender segregation, course materials and costume codes. He stated universities would reopen for ladies as soon as they had been resolved.

The Taliban made related guarantees about highschool entry for ladies, saying courses would resume for them as soon as “technical issues” round uniforms and transport had been sorted out, however women are nonetheless shut out of lecture rooms.

Jabbar stated the training sector was because it was earlier than.

“Everything is ready in advance, whether it’s school or university studies. It may be that the (start) times are different, boys in the morning and in the afternoon there will be girls. Or there will be girls in the morning and boys in the afternoon.”

His feedback come days forward of the second anniversary of the Taliban’s return to energy.

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