The Taliban have expressed hope that the girls’ school will reopen in the new school year

Taliban Ministry of Education officials say there are high hopes that girls’ schools will start in the new school year.

Aziz Ahmad Ryan, Public Relations Officer of the Taliban Ministry of Education, said in an interview with Bakhtar state news agency: “There is a lot of hope that girls’ schools will start in the new school year and our sisters will go to school. To prevent wasting their time, this year for female students, a class promotion was given.

He added: “When Kabul was conquered by the Islamic Emirate, all educational institutions in Afghanistan were closed due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, and the leadership of the Ministry of Education of the Islamic Emirate agreed in the first instance that all boys ‘and girls’ schools from first grade to “Sixth should be reopened throughout the country, and in the next step, the gates of the school should be opened for boys in the seventh to twelfth grades, but the girls’ educational institutions were temporarily closed to plan and receive a safe educational space.”

However, after the Taliban took control of schools in most provinces, girls’ schools were closed to students above grade 6.