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Taliban to segregate men, women when university classes resume on 9 October

Taliban’s deputy spokesman Karimi, said women will be only allowed to attend university when a 'pure Islamic environment' is created, without stating any criteria or timeline for it.

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Delhi: An official with Afghanistan’s Ministry of Higher Education said men and women will be segregated when university classes resume on Oct. 9, after the Taliban and Kabul University disputed reports that female students will be temporarily barred.

“They’ll resume their education in separate classes as planned,” Mohammad Edris, assistant secretary to the minister of higher education, said by phone from Kabul on Saturday.

Still, Bilal Karimi — the Taliban’s deputy spokesman — said women will only be allowed to attend university when a “pure Islamic environment” is created, without specifying the criteria for it or when it could happen. Those comments echoed the content of a tweet published last week on an account purporting to belong to Kabul University’s new Chancellor Mohammad Ashraf Ghairat, which both the educational institution and Karimi said was fake.

“Women are not barred from education and they will be allowed to go to universities as soon as we create a pure Islamic environment, under which they should carry on their education,” Karimi said by phone on Saturday. He said the Twitter account didn’t represent Ghairat and “we don’t know who runs it.” Efforts to reach Ghairat and the operator of the Twitter handle were unsuccessful.

The Twitter account had said female students won’t return to Kabul University until “a real Islamic environment” is provided for all. Several news organizations, including Bloomberg News, cited that handle.

Kabul University said in a Sept. 28 statement on Facebook that the Twitter handle was fake and misled the public. –Bloomberg 


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