Kabul, March 23: Just hours after secondary girls schools in Afghanistan were opened, the Taliban government on Wednesday shut down the schools. TOLO News quoted Aziz Ahmad Reyan, spokesman of the Ministry of Education, as saying that for now girls’ schools beyond grade six will remain closed.
The leadership of the Islamic Emirate will make a final decision on this, he added. Reacting to the latest announcement, a schoolgirl said she cried from happiness she heard about the reopening of schools but again “cried after she and her female classmates were prevented from entering their school”. UNI
