RASC News Agency: The Scottish newspaper The Herald has revealed that senior Taliban officials are covertly sending their daughters to a private school funded by a Scottish charity, while simultaneously enforcing a nationwide ban on girls’ education in Afghanistan. In an exclusive report, The Herald exposed the blatant hypocrisy of Taliban leaders, who, despite imposing severe restrictions on Afghanistani girls, are ensuring their own daughters receive an education at a privately funded institution operated by a foreign humanitarian organization.
The school, which educates the daughters of Taliban officials, is reportedly run by a Scottish charity and financially backed by international donors. According to the investigation, the institution is managed by Spirit Aid, a non-profit founded by Scottish actor and humanitarian David Hayman, and currently provides education to 80 students, both male and female. Speaking to The Herald, Hayman strongly condemned the Taliban’s double standards, stating: “The very men who have banned millions of Afghanistani girls from attending school are sending their own daughters to be educated in our classrooms.”
Hayman, who has spearheaded numerous humanitarian projects through Spirit Aid, has also been involved in funding education for Palestinian nurses. Expressing deep concern for their safety, he revealed that half of the 30 nurses his charity had been supporting have now gone missing, with fears that they may have been killed. Criticizing the UK government’s inaction, he added, “Our government should bow its head in shame.” The actor also disclosed that he is working on a theatrical production shedding light on the harrowing reality faced by Afghanistani women, whom he describes as “erased from public life barred from education, forbidden from singing or even laughing in their own homes, and stripped of their most basic rights.”
While millions of Afghanistani girls are denied access to education and barred from universities, Taliban leaders continue to exploit foreign resources to secure a future for their own children a stark and damning contradiction that underscores the regime’s hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy.
