Afghanistan: Taliban orders closure of colleges and high schools to girls

Young Afghans had just retrieved schools from schools, which reopened Wednesday for the first time since the Taliban power outlet in August.

Le Monde with AFP

The Taliban ordered, Wednesday, March 23, the closing of colleges and high schools for girls in Afghanistan, only a few hours after their reopening, confirmed a Taliban manager.

“yes it’s true,” said Another Comment to the France-Press agency (AFP), Inamullah Samangani, Spokesperson for Taliban, confirming information that girls had been asked to return home .

A team of AFP-TV filmed Wednesday morning a class in a class of Zarghona high school for girls, in the capital Kabul, when a teacher entered and ordered students to return home. The latter, who rejoice in their return to school for the first time since the takeover of Islamist fundamentalists, closed their books, packed their business, and left in tears the class. The same scene was noted by other journalists present in the country, As this correspondent of the BBC . The Government Press Agency, Bakhtar News Agency evokes a reopening “If clothes [girls] are designed according to the Charie, customs and Afghan culture”.

The international community has made the right to education for all a stumbling block in negotiations on the aid and recognition of the fundamentalist Islamist regime. Several countries and organizations have proposed remunerate teachers.

/Media reports.