The #Taliban Higher Education Minister Mulawi Nida Muhammad Nadeem says Among the #mujahideen , anyone who has carried out many explosions, we do not take the university exam from him. pic.twitter.com/Pr0wfGQAFu — Abdulhaq Omeri (@AbdulhaqOmeri) December 4, 2022 By Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 15, 2022 One of the Taliban’s main goals since seizing
8am: The Taliban have ordered that the 12th-grade exams of female students must be held in one day. All 12th-grade girls are going to appear in the exams today without having preparation as they have only been asked to contact their schools on Monday to register for the exam along with a photograph, ID card,
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 25, 2022 ISLAMABAD — A group of independent experts at the United Nations has warned that Taliban restrictions on women’s rights and freedoms in Afghanistan could amount to a “crime against humanity.” The experts demanded in a joint statement Friday that the Taliban treatment of women and girls “should be investigated
Akmal Dawi VOA News November 22, 2022 The explosion at Kaaj educational center in Kabul was so powerful that it lifted 17-year-old Fatima Amiri off the ground before thrusting her slim body several meters away. “I did not faint,” Amiri told VOA over the phone from her home in Kabul. “I ran to a nearby
LA Times: The group claims it has no interest in restoring its 1990s regime, when girls were banned from school and almost all jobs, and endured corporal punishment for violations such as not wearing a burqa in public. Yet every few months, new decrees are issued about which careers women may have, how far they
Tolo News: As the World Children Day is being celebrated on November 20th around the globe, children in Afghanistan are bearing the worst of the humanitarian crisis. Fatima, 8, is an orphan, who is selling bread on a street in capital city of Kabul. Fatima is in the second grade but she sees no clear
Fatima Amiri lost an eye in a suicide attack on a private college in Kabul on September 30. Just two weeks later, she passed her university entrance exams and plans to study computer science. The Taliban has barred female students from choosing many other university courses, including journalism, economics, engineering, and many social and natural
8am: Citizens complain about the lack of attention to the matter of education and the excessive attention of the Taliban to religious schools. With this description, political analysts believe that the Taliban use the pretext of religious school for training insurgents and extremists. Religious schools are the centers of producing extremist fighters for the Taliban
Tolo News: At the United Nations General Assembly meeting held on November 10 on Afghanistan, several attendees criticized the policy that keeps Afghan women and girls from education and the workplace, highlighting that Afghanistan is the only country where girls are banned from going to school. The attendees reiterated that such a policy severely stunts
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi November 8, 2022 Afghanistan’s universities have become a hotbed of resistance to the Taliban, with female students staging protests against the militant group’s sweeping restrictions on women. In response, the Taliban has cracked down on several university campuses across the country, violently breaking up demonstrations and expelling students accused of political activism.