While the Taliban have banned Afghan women and girls from schools and universities, Nida Mohammad Nadim, the group’s minister of higher education asked the international community for cooperation in the education sector.
The Taliban’s higher education minister discussed cooperation in the education sector in a meeting with Robert Dickson, the British Charge d’Affairs for Afghanistan.
Dickson has been appointed as the interim Charge d’Affairs of the UK mission in Afghanistan. He is on a visit to Kabul and met with the Taliban’s foreign minister too.
Nadim also said that the stability of Afghanistan depends on education and that’s why the world should cooperate in the development of education sector in the country.
He stressed that educated Afghans need to return to Afghanistan and take part in the development of the country. With the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban, many university lecturers and professors have been removed from their positions in state universities and or have fled the country.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the Taliban’s foreign ministry announced that Amir Khan Muttaqi met with Dickson in Kabul.
This ministry stated that the Taliban is thankful to the UK for “not supporting armed oppositions” of the group.
Muttaqi told Dickson that the UK should not formulate its Afghanistan policies based on "media reports". He called on the British government to be “realistic” about the Taliban.
