Afghanistan universities yet to reopen, money just a reason listed by Taliban

The Taliban have said universities in Afghanistan are yet to open because of the profitable extremity facing the country and also over the issue ofco-education.

Taliban minister of advanced education Abdul Baqi Haqqani said on Sunday they will need further time and redundant budget to make separate classes for girls and hire redundant speakers, reported Khaama Press.

Public universities and high seminaries for girls are yet to be restarted in Afghanistan, which was reacquired by the Taliban on August 15 this time. After they sieged the country, the Taliban placed a ban on coeducation.

The Taliban also ordered girls will no longer be allowed to sit in the same classes as boys in universities.
Independently, the Taliban said women have to be accompanied by a close joker relative if they want to travel long distances.

The ministry for the creation of virtue and forestallment of vice in its guidance also called on vehicle possessors to refuse lifts to women not wearing headscarves, drawing commination from rights activists.

Women travelling for further than 45 country miles (72 kilometres) shouldn’t be offered a lift if they aren’t accompanied by a close family member,” ministry prophet Sadeq Akif Muhajir told AFP on Sunday, specifying that the companion must be a close joker relative.

Before this, the ministry asked Afghanistan’s TV channels to stop showing dramatizations and cleaner operas featuring women actors. It also called on women Television intelligencers to wear headscarves while presenting.

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