Hamid Karzai speaks out for Afghan women as Taliban loom outside - The Times

Afghanistan’s former president Hamid Karzai has spoken out against the Taliban for the first time, decrying their restrictions on girls’ education and revealing his despair at seeing so many talented young Afghans fleeing the country.

“Education of girls is extremely important,” he told The Sunday Times in an interview at his house in Kabul, now guarded by the Taliban. “There is no other way. This will not be a country which stands on its own feet without education, especially for girls.”

High schools across Afghanistan reopened yesterday for the first time since the Taliban took power last month — but only for boys, making it the only country on earth to exclude girls from secondary education. Sameena, 14, from Kabul, forced to stay at home

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2021-09-18 17:00:00Z
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