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Haqqani to hold clerics meeting to resolve girls' school issue
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 4 (ANI): Anas Haqqani, a senior member of the Taliban has addressed a gathering in Khost on Wednesday to discuss the prevalent problems pertaining to the ban on secondary girls' schools.
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Islamic scholars call on Taliban to reopen schools for girls in Afghanista
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 1 (ANI): Islamic scholars at a gathering in Afghanistan's Paktia province called on the Taliban to reopen schools for girls, local media reported.
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Taliban reneged on promise to reopen Afghan girls' schools: Blinken
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 30 (ANI): The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has expressed his disappointment over the fact that the Taliban has failed to fulfil their promises about reopening schools for girls in Afghanistan.
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Dress restrictions tighten for Afghanistan girls' schools, says rights gro
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 28 (ANI): After seizing powering August the last year, the Taliban instituted a de facto ban on girls' secondary education, even though community pressure resulted in some girls' secondary schools reopening in about nine provinces.
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Hamid Karzai urges Taliban to reopen girls schools
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 26 (ANI): Afghanistan's former President Hamid Karzai has raised concerns over the closure of schools for girls, above grade 6, by the Taliban regime, stating that the people of Afghanistan want their girls to return to schools.
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UNICEF raises concerns over closure of schools for girls in Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 25 (ANI): The United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has once again raised concerns over the closure of secondary schools for girls emphasizing that education in Afghanistan should not be a hostage to politics.
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US Envoy, Abdullah Abdullah discuss plight of Afghan girls'
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 23 (ANI): The United States Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West raised the issue of reopening of girls' schools in Afghanistan with the head of the former council of peace and national reconciliation of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah.
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Pakistan's Mufti Taqi Usman writes to Taliban for reopening schools for Af
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 22 (ANI): Following the closure of girls' schools by the Taliban and the world voicing out for justice for women and their rights in Afghanistan, another cleric of Pakistan Mufti Taqi Usman calls out Taliban to reopen schools for Afghan girls.
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Activists, political parties call on Taliban to reopen girls' schools 'as
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 22 (ANI): Several activists and political parties on Thursday called on the Taliban to reopen schools for girls in Afghanistan "as soon as possible".
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Women in Kabul call on Taliban to reopen girls' schools
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 18 (ANI): A number of women in Kabul have urged the Taliban to reopen schools for girls above grade six, local media reported.
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Religious scholars in Paktika province urge Taliban to reopen girls' schoo
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 14 (ANI): Amid the worldwide condemnation of the Taliban regime's diktat to ban girls from attending school over sixth grade, a group of religious scholars assembled in Afghanistan's south-eastern Paktika province calling for reopening of schools for girls.
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Afghanistan: EU Parliament Member asks Taliban to lift ban on girls' educa
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 14 (ANI): Taking a grim view of the ongoing human rights violations in Afghanistan, Hannah Neuman, a German member of the European Parliament, called for urgent measures to lift the ban on the exclusion of the girls from the schools.
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