Taliban Official Admits Daughters Go to School as Afghan Teens Are Banned

A Taliban official has admitted that his daughters go to highschool, regardless of a ban on Afghan ladies getting an schooling within the nation.

On Tuesday, Piers Morgan confronted Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen on Piers Morgan Uncensored and requested whether or not his daughters have been allowed to get an schooling in a clip posted to Twitter.

“After all, sure. They’re observing hijab, and so which means we’ve not denied for our individuals,” Shaheen stated in a tense change the place the 2 went back-and-forth in regards to the topic.

Morgan hit again, “So your daughters get an schooling as a result of they do what you inform them,” earlier than promptly ending the interview.

The Taliban’s return to energy in Afghanistan final 12 months raised issues in regards to the rights of ladies and ladies within the nation, who had made advances for the reason that finish of the group’s first rule, once they had been subjected to harsh legal guidelines and banned from receiving an schooling. Within the months following the Taliban’s return, ladies haven’t been allowed to attend faculty.

Social media customers responded to the clip posted Tuesday, calling out Shaheen for hypocrisy.

“This man’s daughters observe hijab and get an schooling. This man’s one daughter performs on the Qatari soccer group. This man’s one daughter has a Qatari boyfriend. Afghan ladies observe the hijab, however are disadvantaged of an schooling previous the sixth grade they usually can’t play sports activities,” wrote Twitter user @Punk319 in response to the clip.

Afghan colleges nonetheless haven’t reopened to ladies regardless of earlier guarantees from the Taliban that they might have the ability to resume their schooling—almost 9 months after the group took energy.

Faculties had been initially set to reopen in March, however the Taliban introduced the day they had been purported to open that they might stay shut down as a result of the group had not but decided the gown code college students could be required to put on. The choice got here as some ladies had already returned to class.

The Taliban beforehand deliberate to permit ladies to return with some restrictions, together with that they needed to be separated from male college students and be taught by a feminine instructor.

Different girls’s rights have additionally been focused by the Taliban in latest months. In December, the group introduced that Afghan girls may not journey greater than 45 miles with out the presence of a “shut male family member.”

Over the weekend, it was introduced that Afghan girls could be required to cowl themselves from head to toe whereas in public in a decree that additionally stated girls ought to go away the house solely when essential, the Related Press reported.