INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Afghanistan&s universities are ready to readmit female students, but the IEA&s supreme leader has the ultimate say on when that might happen
& if it happens at all, Associated Press reported.Afghanistan&s higher education minister, Neda Mohammed Nadeem, said in December, when the
ban on universities was imposed, that the move was necessary to prevent the mixing of genders and because he believed some subjects being
taught violated the principles of Islam.He said the ban, issued by the IEA&s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, was in place until
further notice.An adviser at the Higher Education Ministry, Mawlavi Abdul Jabbar, meanwhile said universities were ready to readmit female
students as soon as Akhundzada gives the order for the ban to be lifted
He was unable to say when or if that would happen.Akhundzada &ordered that the universities be closed, so they closed,& he told Associated
&When he says they are open, they will open the same day
All our leaders are in favor of (restarting girls& education), even our ministers are in favor of it.&The post Afghan universities ready to
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