The Taliban has made it very clear that women will be allowed to study at the universities but there will be no mixed classes according to the Taliban’s acting minister for higher education Abdul Bani Haqqani yesterday (29 August), reports Hindustan Times.
Haqqani said, “The people of Afghanistan will continue their higher education in the light of Sharia law in safety without being in a mixed male and female environment.”
Haqqani further said that the Taliban wants to “create a reasonable and Islamic curriculum that is in line with our Islamic, national and historical values and, on the other hand, be able to compete with other countries”.
During a press conference, when the question was asked with regards to having female parliamentarians, the Taliban said, “that this would be a matter for the leadership to decide and he could not anticipate what their decision would be,”.
The other important issue at hand is that if the Taliban would allow women to work and to get educated at all levels because when the Taliban was in power from 1996 to 2001, it had banned women from education.
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