In a dramatic flip of occasions, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan ordered closure of secondary faculties for ladies on Wednesday, simply hours after these reopened for the primary time since final August, when the Islamic motion seized energy within the nation for a second time.

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“Sure, it’s true,” Taliban spokesman Inamullah Samangani confirmed the event after the order result in confusion among the many college students.

The sudden transfer is prone to spark recent issues over women’ training within the war-torn nation. Upon capturing energy within the nation, the Taliban had promised to ‘shield’ the rights of girls, kids and minorities. 

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Maintaining with its promise, the regime, in September 2021, allowed some faculties for ladies, as much as class 6, to reopen. Additionally, girls had been allowed to go to universities. Nevertheless, excessive faculties for feminine college students remained closed, and the Islamic emirate introduced that lessons for all women would resume ‘on the earliest.’

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Accordingly, in its order saying reopening of faculties for ladies, the Taliban mentioned academic institutes will reopen from March 23 in a number of provinces, together with capital Kabul. Nevertheless, the order additionally famous that faculties in Kandahar--the group’s ‘non secular heartland’--will not open till April.

“We're reopening faculties to not make the worldwide neighborhood comfortable, nor to achieve recognition from the world,” a spokesperson mentioned on the time.

Beforehand, the Taliban dominated Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, after which they had been pushed away by the US-led forces who arrived right here within the wake of the 9/11 assaults. US troops totally exited the nation in August final yr.

(With company inputs)