RASC News Agency: Khaled Hosseini, author of “The Kite Runner,” has described the thousand-day closure of schools for Afghanistani girls as a “catastrophe.” The renowned Afghanistani-American author stated that depriving girls of education endangers their future and the future of their country.
In his novels, Mr. Hosseini has extensively written about discrimination, oppression, and prejudice in Afghanistan. “The Kite Runner” highlights widespread discrimination, social injustice, and the oppression of non-Pashtun ethnic groups, particularly the Hazaras, by Pashtuns. In “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” he addresses the inequality and social oppression of women, illustrating how “a woman breathes beneath the veil that even covers her eyes.”
Participating in the campaign “Education Cannot Wait,” launched under the initiative “Voices of Afghanistani Girls,” Mr. Hosseini revealed that 80 percent of girls and women in Afghanistan have been deprived of education. According to Khaled Hosseini, barring girls from education has led to their forced marriages. The distinguished author emphasized that depriving girls of education violates their human rights.
Thursday, June 13, marked one thousand days since the Taliban barred Afghanistani girls above the sixth grade from attending school. The group has also prohibited female students from attending universities. On the thousandth day of the closure of girls’ schools in Afghanistan, numerous human rights organizations and activists condemned the Taliban’s “misogynistic” actions.
Several Afghanistani women have described the country’s current state as “suffocating,” adding that Afghanistan is no longer a place for women; it resembles a black hole or a quagmire from which they cannot escape.
