Hamid Karzai, former president of Afghanistan, once again called on the Taliban to let girls above grade 6 to go to school. Karzai on Friday said that he supports the demands of the Ulema and elders of Kunar province regarding reopening of schools for girls.
He asked the Taliban to defy “sinister intentions of foreigners” by reponing the schools for girls.
Karzai in a tweet said that the development of a society is dependent on girls’ and boys’ education.
He pointed to the gathering of the Ulema and elders in Kunar province and asked the Taliban to respect people’s demands and reopen the doors of schools for girls.
Hamid Karzai advised the Taliban, “With the reopening of schools for girls, the evil intentions of outsiders will be defeated and the country will have a bright future.”
It has been more than 300 days since girls above grade 6 have been deprived of education.
Life under the Taliban’s rule has become hard for Afghan women as they lost their right to work, education and social life in the society.
Two days ago, United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) published its first report on human rights in Afghanistan since Taliban took over the country.
UNAMA acting SRSG, Markus Potzel, said that deprivation of girls and women of their basic rights is one of the most prominent violations of human rights by the Taliban. This report highlighted specific concerns in relation to the actions of the Taliban’s Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice and the group’s intelligence agency.
Based on this report, most of the group’s departments restricted human rights and basic freedoms of Afghans, especially, the rights of women and girls.
