Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s spokesperson, has announced that over the past year, the group’s Ministry of Education has constructed 17 religious schools in Afghanistan.
Mujahid, in a statement released on Wednesday, December 31, said that in addition to the religious schools, 221 modern schools have also been fundamentally built and put into operation.
This comes as, following the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, the construction of religious schools and the increase in religious subjects in school curricula have expanded significantly.
At the same time, for more than four years, the gates of schools and universities have remained closed to girls, and no specific plan for their reopening has been announced.
Meanwhile, findings by the Hasht-e Subh Daily also indicate that the Taliban have removed 51 textbook titles from Afghanistan’s school curriculum that included topics on women’s rights and human rights.
According to the published report, the Taliban had claimed that the removed content conflicted with Islamic Sharia values and principles.
Human rights organizations have also stated that the Taliban, by closing the doors to education, suppressing students, and erasing the society’s cultural memory, are seeking to destroy the future of the society.
You can read the Persian version of this news here:
ذبیحالله مجاهد: در یک سال گذشته ۱۷ مدرسه دینی در افغانستان ایجاد شده است
