A senior Taliban figure says the group's leader should scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls.

Summary

Sher Abbas Stanikzai, a senior Taliban official, publicly criticized the group’s ban on education for Afghan women and girls, urging Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada to reverse the policy.

Speaking in Khost province, he condemned the bans as unjust and unsupported by Islamic law, depriving 20 million women of their rights.

This marks Stanikzai’s strongest call for change.

The international community, including Malala Yousafzai and the U.N., continues to pressure the Taliban on this issue, linking education access to potential recognition of their government.

  • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Afghanistan is not in the Middle East, it’s solidly in Central Asia though. I think women can get an education in all of its neighbours - at least in India, Pakistan and Iran they can. They wouldn’t mind them catching up I think.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        41·
        3 months ago

        As i said, [greater] middle east :)

        TF kind of weird American term is that. Kabul is as far away from the Middle East as Berlin or Moscow is. It’s as if Turkey or Iran went around talking about the “greater European area” and included everything from Vladivostok through Berlin to Anchorage just because the prevailing culture has christian roots.

        Also, this guy is also “the Taliban”. They have their own internal struggles, and I think demilitarizing will soften them up a bit. That said, I also don’t expect a female Afghan prime minister in the next century.