In an interview broadcast Monday by CNN, acting interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani pledged girls’ secondary schools will open soon.
“I would like to provide some clarification. There is no one who opposes education for women,” Haqqani said.
He argued that girls could already go to primary school. “Above that grade, the work is continuing on a mechanism” to allow girls to attend secondary school, he said in his first televised interview.
“Very soon you will hear very good news about this issue,” he said.
Haqqani hinted that the “mechanism” was linked to school dress codes, explaining that education should be based on Afghan “culture” and “Islamic rules and principles,” and referred “more broadly” to the issue of women wearing the hijab.
“We must establish the conditions so that we can ensure their honor and security. We are acting to ensure this.”
Since the return of the Islamic Emirate to power, girls from secondary schools have been banned from attending to school.
Earlier last week, the government made a new announcement on women’s hijab, saying it was “required for all respectable Afghan women to wear a hijab”, or headscarf.
The top security minister also said that “the last 20 years was a situation of defensive fighting and war” but that he wanted in the future “to have good relations with the United States and the international community.”
“We do not look at them as enemies,” he said, and the Islamic Emirate intends to respect the agreement signed with Washington in 2020, in which they pledged not to let Afghanistan become a haven for terrorists targeting Americans again.
Killid and Agencies
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