RASC News Agency: In response to the latest wave of detentions targeting women in Kabul, the Supreme Council of Resistance for the Salvation of Afghanistan has issued a scathing statement, denouncing the Taliban’s systemic crackdown as “the naked face of a misogynistic and authoritarian regime.” The Council warns that the deliberate erasure of women from public life is not merely an isolated abuse of power, but a calculated political project designed to cement patriarchal domination under the guise of religious governance. The statement, released on Tuesday, July 22, directly links the Taliban’s ongoing repression to a broader political engineering agenda, describing the recent mass arrests of women by the so-called Department for the Promotion of Virtue as part of a state-sanctioned war against gender equality. According to the Resistance Council, the Taliban’s policies are intentionally crafted to eliminate Afghanistani women from the nation’s social, educational, and professional spheres effectively rendering half of the population invisible.
“The removal of girls from the university entrance exam is not just a statistical omission,” the statement asserts. “It is a formal declaration by the Taliban regime that it intends to discard fifty percent of the country’s human potential.” The Council argues that such acts are not mere bureaucratic decisions, but ideological moves aimed at building an apartheid state where women are denied even the most basic human rights. Calling on the international community, the Council urges urgent action from the United Nations, the European Union, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, and all human rights defenders. “Before the situation reaches a point of no return,” the statement reads, “global actors must honor their obligations and moral responsibilities toward Afghanistani women. Continued silence is tantamount to complicity in this gender-based repression.”
The Council also delivered a scathing rebuke of the indifference shown by certain influential governments, emphasizing that global silence has emboldened the Taliban to implement their anti-woman policies with impunity. The absence of coordinated international condemnation, they argue, has effectively granted the regime a free hand to enforce its gender apartheid with no consequences. Reports from local sources in Kabul confirm that over the past several days, dozens of women have been arrested in various parts of the capital under vague charges such as “non-compliance with Taliban-style hijab” or appearing in public “without a male guardian.” These detentions, conducted without due process, are just the latest manifestations of the Taliban’s sweeping moral policing regime, which has become increasingly aggressive in targeting women’s basic freedoms.
Simultaneously, the Taliban-controlled Examination Authority has released the results of the 1404 national university entrance exam (Kankor). Yet again, for the fourth consecutive year, girls were categorically barred from participating in the examination a blatant violation of their right to education enshrined in both Afghanistani constitutional law and international treaties. According to the Resistance Council, these developments represent not a momentary lapse but the beginning of a darker trajectory. “Afghanistan’s future, without the full participation of women, is not only incomplete it is doomed to failure,” the Council warns. A country that silences its mothers, banishes its daughters, and censors the voice of half its citizens cannot prosper, let alone stabilize.
By systematically stripping women of their rights, the Taliban regime continues to dismantle the very foundation of Afghanistani society. This repression is not accidental it is designed. And unless there is swift and decisive international pressure, the Council warns, Afghanistan risks descending into an even deeper state of repression, regression, and resistance.
