Newsnomics AJAY ANGELINA reporter | The Afghan Taliban authorities prohibited female education in the universities nationwide, highlighted by the ministry of higher Education in a letter issued to all government and private universities on Tuesday December 20.
"You all are informed to immediately implement the mentioned order of suspending education of females until further notice," said a letter issued to all government and private universities, signed by the Minister for Higher Education, Neda Mohammad Nadeem.
The ban on higher education comes less than three months after thousands of girls and women sat university entrance exams across the country under the guard of Taliban snipers, as many aspiring to choose engineering, teaching and medicine as future careers.
After Taliban has taken over the country, universities were forced to implement new rules including gender segregated classrooms and entrances, while women were only permitted to be taught by women professors or old men. Most teenage girls across the country have already been banned from secondary school education, severely li miting university intake.
Most female government workers have lost their jobs — or are being paid a wage to stay at home. women are also barred from travelling without a male relative, and must cover up with a burqa or hijab when go out of the house.
Not only that, Women are also banned to use gyms, public baths, funfairs, and parks since Taliban’s return last year 2021.
As the hardliner Islamist continue to crush women's right of education and freedom posing restrictions on all aspects of women's lives, ignoring international outrage despite promising a softer rule.
Washington condemned the decision "in the strongest terms."
"The Taliban should expect that this decision, which is in contravention to the commitments they have made repeatedly and publicly to their own people, will carry concrete costs for them," State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters in Washington.
