Taliban bans woman college students from attending college past third grade

As a part of the Taliban’s most up-to-date diktat suppressing the rights of Afghan girls, the Islamic regime has banned ladies over 10 years of age from attending main college lessons in some provinces of Afghanistan. This signifies that woman college students can not examine past the third normal. The ban has been imposed within the Ghazni province in Afghanistan. Before this, ladies had been banned to review in colleges past the sixth grade. 

According to a report revealed by BBC Persian on Saturday, the Ministry of Education’s officers have requested the principals of colleges and short-term coaching lessons to make sure that “girls over 10 years old are not allowed to study in primary schools”.

The report additional acknowledged that in just a few areas in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Good and Prohibition’s native authorities are separating ladies based mostly on their ages and ordering the principals of the ladies’ colleges, which had been in operation, to ship again the scholars who’re above the third grade.

“We were told that girls who are tall and over 10 years old are not allowed to enter the school,” stated a sixth-grade scholar in japanese Afghanistan, whereas talking to the BBC.

The newest onslaught comes after video video games, overseas films and music had been outlawed in Afghanistan beneath the Taliban authorities as a result of they’re thought of to be anti-Islamic. This ban is first imposed within the western metropolis of Herat in Afghanistan. More than 400 companies in Herat needed to shut down because of the sudden ban enforced by the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

The ban got here after restrictions on different pastimes and sorts of leisure that go towards the Taliban’s radical Islamic Sharia legislation. The Taliban, earlier this month, prohibited girls and households from accessing the backyard eating places in Herat.

In July of this yr, the Taliban’s morality ministry ordered that every one women-run institutions resembling hair and wonder salons be closed down inside a month of receiving preliminary info, which was delivered to them on July 2nd. 

Under Taliban management, teenage women and girls had been forbidden from coming into school rooms, gyms, and parks. The girls in Afghanistan have additionally been barred from working for the United Nations and a number of other worldwide non-governmental organisations after the Taliban’s order on twenty fourth December 2022. The Taliban banned girls from working in NGOs alleging that they aren’t sporting the Islamic headband accurately.

The Taliban closed hookah amenities throughout the nation in October 2022. Smoking hookah is an on a regular basis pastime for Afghan males. The Taliban closed down eateries owned and run by girls within the metropolis of Herat earlier in May 2022 and forbade women and men from eating collectively there. The Islamist group has forcefully imposed extreme constraints on how Afghans can behave and the way women and men can work together with one another.