More than 50 Afghanistan girls and women on Saturday, defied the Taliban regime and staged protests in front of the Ministry of Education in Kabul, against the regime’s decision to shut down girls’ schools in the troubled Asian country, IgbereTV reports
The decision of the regime to close the schools which is yet to be explained by the Taliban, however, means that girls above the sixth grade will not be able to attend schools.
The protests came days after the Taliban administration decided to shut secondary schools for girls until further notice, a few hours after it had announced the reopening of schools shut since they took over power in August 2021.
Last Wednesday, thousands of jubilant girls across Afghanistan had flocked to various schools to resume after the Education ministry announced the the resumption of classes for girls of all ages.
But just hours into the first day of resumption, the Ministry reversed itself by announcing a shock policy reversal that left jubilant girls and their parents feeling betrayed while foreign governments and opponents of the regime expressing outrage
