Afghan women at university must study in female-only classrooms, Taliban say

 The Taliban have announced that Afghan women will only be allowed to study at university in gender-separated classes and will have to dress in Islam.

On Saturday, the Taliban hoisted a flag at the presidential residence to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, indicating that their efforts to rule the new Islamic Emirate had begun. The white flag with Kluanik's poems was hoisted by the Acting Taliban Prime Minister, Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akund.

On the same day, Rohula Azizi, a brother of former vice president and anti-Taliban resistance leader Amurula Surrey, was shot dead at a Taliban checkpoint. Saleh declared himself the legitimate interim president of Afghanistan and was at the forefront of opposition to the Panjshir Taliban.

The international community is closely monitoring how the new male-only Taliban administration treats women in Afghanistan in order to assess the reality of the Taliban's promises of detention to some extent.

In one of the first policies announced by the Taliban, Higher Education Minister Abdul Baki Hakani established a set of rules governing women's access to higher education in Afghanistan.

During a press conference, Haqqani said that women are allowed to continue their university education, but are required to wear a hijab. It was not clear if this meant a scarf or if the woman's face should be completely covered.

Gender separation also applies to all universities. That is, men and women should be educated in separate classes. “We don't allow boys and girls to study together,” Haqqani said. "We do not allow co-education."

Female students can also be educated by women. Haqqani also said that the subjects taught at the university will be reviewed.

The Taliban promised that the new government would represent and respect the rights of women and girls better, albeit within an “Islamic framework,” than when it came to power between 1996 and 2001. It was not allowed to going to school, work and leaving home without a male companion, and was forced to comply with strict laws governing “female virtues”.

The Taliban's full agenda has yet to be announced. However, as under the previous administration, despite the promise of a "global" government, there are no women in the cabinet and women are prohibited from playing sports. "Women don't need to be in the cabinet," Tulliburn spokesperson Saeed Zekrula Hasimi said in a recent interview with ToroNews television, according to which women's roles are childbirth and parenthood. ..

The new educational policy shows a big change compared to the previous functioning of the university. Before the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on August 15, Afghan universities were jointly formed and women did not have to adhere to the dress code. The number of female students in higher education has reached record levels, with more female students than men at institutions such as Herat University and Galib University in Kabul.

However, since the Taliban came to power, many students have stayed at home due to anxiety and fear, and women who have recently gone out to protest in the streets demanding equal rights have been victims of violence and gunfire.

“There are growing reports that the Taliban have banned women from appearing in public places without male escorts and prevented them from working. Deborah Lyons, special representative of the UN Secretary-General in Afghanistan, told the Security Council last week. I said at the meeting.

Haqqani claimed the Taliban did not want the watch to go back 20 years. "We will start to build on what is there today," he said.

However, many question the feasibility of new educational rules, particularly how universities and offices can cope with the separation of women and the cost of individualized courses and space. In universities, the lack of equipment and female teachers is already a problem, and some universities tell students that they must stop teaching certain courses for women.

Heather Barr, Co-Director of the Women's Rights Division of Human R