Jakarta –
Universities in Kabul almost empty on the first day of the school year Afghanistan, as lecturers and students are faced with new rules Taliban limiting the classroom.
As reported by the news agency AFP, Tuesday (7/9/2021), Taliban have promised more lenient rules than during their first term from 1996-2001, when women’s liberties were denied Afghanistan sharply restricted and they were barred from receiving higher education.
This time, Taliban group said women would be allowed to go to private universities under the new regime, but they faced strict restrictions on their dress and movement.
The Taliban states that women can only attend lectures if they wear an abaya and niqab and are separated from men.
“Our students don’t accept this and we have to close the university,” said Noor Ali Rahmani, director of the University of Gharjistan in Kabul, one of the nearly empty campuses on Monday (6/9) local time.
“Our students wear the hijab, not the niqab,” he added.
Earlier on Sunday, the Taliban’s education authority issued a lengthy document outlining the provisions on lecture halls, which also ruled that men and women must be separated or at least separated by a curtain if there are 15 students or less.
“We said we didn’t accept it because it would be difficult to do,” Rahmani told AFP.
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