RASC: While the restrictions imposed on the education of girls above the sixth grade by the Taliban group are still in place, in Badakhshan province, a religious school in Teshkan district held a graduation ceremony for “22 girls and putting on the veil of virtue” with the presence of men.
According to the report of the Taliban-controlled Bakhtar News Agency, despite the ban on girls’ education in public schools, they were allowed to graduate in this school after five years.
In a video published by Bakhtar, the Taliban news agency, it can be seen that female graduates wearing white hijabs approved by the Taliban are sitting in the courtyard of Khadija Al-Kubra Girls’ School and finishing the book of Bukhari’s Hadiths.
It can also be seen in this video that all the participants are the officials of the Taliban group, local men and boys who have gathered for the graduation ceremony of these girls.
It is not clear when this video was released.
Mawlawi Faiz Rahman Wafahi, the director of this religious school, told Bakhtar news agency that these “girls” managed to complete religious studies in five years, and some of them have memorized the Qur’an.
It should be mentioned that the Taliban group has blocked the gates of non-religious schools for girls in Afghanistan.
The ban has forced girls to attend religious schools, and to be taught books that the Taliban see as promoting their rule.
Reuter’s news agency announced in February last year that with the ban on girls’ education, the enrollment of girls in Afghanistan’s religious schools has increased significantly.
At the same time, in Kabul province, Mansour Muslim, the director of a religious school in this city, informed the news agency about the 40% increase in female students.
In Kandahar province, the employees of a religious school told Reuters about the doubling of students in a religious seminary, that the number of students has reached nearly 400.
One of these students told Reuters: “I want to finish my education. I wanted to become a doctor in the future, but now I think it is impossible. “If you come to religious school, you can only become a teacher.”
