Nasir Ahmad Faiq, Afghanistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, says denying girls their right to education and imposing educational restrictions on boys under the Taliban regime amount to a betrayal of an entire generation and a blow to Afghanistan’s future.
Faiq wrote on X on Tuesday, November 10, marking World Science Day, that while the world is making rapid advances in science, technology and artificial intelligence, millions of Afghan girls remain deprived of their right to education.
He added that boys are also facing growing restrictions on modern sciences, civic education and critical thinking.
Afghanistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN stressed that depriving girls of education and undermining modern education for boys are not only violations of human rights but also a betrayal of an entire generation and an injustice against the people of Afghanistan.
Faiq said Afghanistan needs scientists, thinkers and innovators, not a generation deprived of knowledge and exposed to ideological indoctrination.
He also described education as a fundamental human right and a key to fighting poverty, dependence and underdevelopment, stressing that no country can achieve progress and prosperity by depriving its young people of the right to learn.
