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The Taliban takeover of the country also impacted women's education and employment. [12] In October 2021, many women who had studied or instructed at Kabul's universities feared that they would not be able to return under the Taliban. [13] As of September 2021, women and girls were still barred from enrolling in secondary education. [14]
[10] [11] In 2023, the Taliban arrested female education campaigner Matiullah Wesa after he traveled to remote parts of the country to improve access to education for all children. The Taliban previously arrested another outspoken critic of the ban on women's education Ismail Mashal in February, but he was released from custody on March 5. [60]
The Taliban replaced Chancellor Mohammad Osman Babury, a longtime KU professor and expert on medicinal plants, with Mohammad Ashraf Ghairat, a Taliban fighter and former journalism student. Critics noted that Ghairat had no qualifications beyond running a small madrassah , and believes he was installed for his loyalty to the Taliban.
Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastHERAT, Afghanistan—“It’s like being under siege” is how one medicine student, who The Daily Beast is referring to as Fatima, describes ...
One thousand days have passed since girls in Afghanistan were banned from attending secondary schools. UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell in a statement urged Taliban authorities to allow ...
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (Left) with Taliban Third Deputy Leader and Head of the Political Office Abdul Ghani Baradar (Right) in Doha, Qatar in 2020. Despite no countries recognizing the Islamic Emirate as the legitimate successor of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, there have been official diplomatic talks between the Taliban and other countries since September 2021.
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