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| Women also held protests in Kabul to get their rights. (Photo: AFP) |
The Taliban have said that their "strong views" on education and women's issues led to the closure of girls' schools. Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi said in an interview with China's state-run TV channel CGTN on Saturday.
"The closing of schools is temporary, it is not a permanent ban." He said that a large part of the society has strict ideas regarding women and education, what women should do and what not.
It has been more than three hundred days since Afghanistan's girls' high schools have been closed.
The authorities of Kabul said that this matter depends on the decision of the supreme leader of the Taliban.
The students have demanded the Taliban authorities to open the school. Another student, Wahida Adalat, says, "If a government wants a progressive and developed society, it has no choice but to live together in education and society."
The international community has repeatedly called on the Taliban to open girls' schools.
Last week, the United Nations imposed travel restrictions on Taliban leaders who deprived women of their rights in Afghanistan.
Diplomats said on condition of anonymity. It was said that Taliban acting Deputy Minister of Education Syed Ahmad Shahid Khel and Deputy Minister of Higher Education Abdul Baqi Haqqani were imposed travel restrictions.
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