Kabul: Women Demonstrate against Closure of Schools, Universities for Female Students

Dozens of Afghan women organized a mass demonstration in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, to protest the closure of schools and universities for female students, considering it a violation of their basic rights in Afghan society.

A women's demonstration in Kabul calls for the reopening of schools and universities for girls.

However, the New York Times, a US daily newspaper said that  the Taliban, an Afghani Islamist militant movement,  prevents women from entering the campus of Kabul University  claiming  to create an "Islamic environment"

According to TOLOnews, the women continued their protest despite their arrest by the Taliban.

Teachers and lecturers from Kabul schools and universities said that the closure of secondary schools and universities is a serious concern that could affect the future of girls' education in the country and that it needs serious attention by the Taliban authorities.

The students said that education is their legal and Islamic right, and no one may take this right from them.

Earlier, the deputy minister of information and culture in the Taliban government, Zabihullah Mujahid, said that the demonstrators should obtain permission in advance from the Ministry of Justice.

But the new advisor to the "Taliban" movement at Kabul University announced that women will be prevented from entering the university campus, indefinitely, whether as teachers or students, according to the New York Times.

One of the lecturers, in an interview with the New York Times, commented on the decision, saying that "in this holy place there was nothing un-Islamic,   presidents, teachers, engineers, and even mullahs are trained here and they are gifted to society," considering that Kabul University is the home of the nation.

The American newspaper said that the "Taliban" replaced two weeks ago the president of Kabul University, the first college in the country, with another, a 34-year-old supporter of the movement, and considered in an earlier statement that the country's schools are "immoral centers."