KABUL (SW) – Authorities claim to have made progress towards reopening the girls’ schools across the country.
Officials at the Ministry of Education of the Islamic Emirate say efforts are underway to reopen girls’ schools and high schools.
Aziz Ahmad Reyan, spokesman for the Ministry of Education of the Islamic Emirate, said in a meeting under the name of ‘Pak-Afghan Jirga’ that the closure of secondary schools and girls’ high schools in Afghanistan is not permanent. He promised the schools would open soon after creating a safe space for the girls.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Education added: “The Islamic Emirate is working hard to design and implement a mechanism for restarting the education of girls from the seventh to the twelfth grade, in accordance with the principles of the holy religion of Islam and the Afghan culture.”
Ryan stressed that the government of the Islamic Emirate considers the creation of a safe educational environment for women and girls a “national and religious duty” and is committed to educating girls based on “not external pressures, but because of the legitimate aspirations of the Afghan people.”
For more than eight months now, the gates of schools have been closed to girls over the sixth grade despite the promises of the Islamic Emirate to reopen schools. This decision of the Islamic Emirate has provoked many reactions inside and outside the country, and the international community has repeatedly called for the immediate reopening of schools for girls.
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