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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>BBC<\/b> – THE Taliban have excluded girls from Afghan secondary schools after they ordered only boys and male teachers to return to the classroom.<\/p>\n

A statement from the Islamist group saying secondary classes would resume made no mention of girls or women.<\/p>\n

One Afghan schoolgirl told the BBC she was devastated. \u201cEverything looks very dark,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Despite Taliban promises it is the latest sign Afghanistan is returning to the harsh rule of the 1990s.<\/p>\n

In another development, on Friday the Taliban appeared to have shut down the women\u2019s affairs ministry and replaced it with a department that once enforced strict religious doctrines.<\/p>\n

During their rule between 1996 and 2001, the Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice was responsible for deploying so-called morality police on to the streets to enforce the Taliban\u2019s strict interpretation of Islamic religious law, known as Sharia.<\/p>\n

\u2018I am so worried about my future\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

A statement issued ahead of Afghan schools reopening on Saturday said: \u201cAll male teachers and students should attend their educational institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Secondary schools are usually for students aged between 13 and 18. Most schools are also segregated, which would make it easy for the Taliban to close down schools for girls.<\/p>\n

Schoolgirls and their parents said prospects were bleak.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am so worried about my future,\u201d said an Afghan schoolgirl, who had hoped to be a lawyer.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything looks very dark. Every day I wake up and ask myself why I am alive? Should I stay at home and wait for someone to knock on the door and ask me to marry him? Is this the purpose of being a woman?\u201d<\/p>\n

Her father said: \u201cMy mother was illiterate, and my father constantly bullied her and called her an idiot. I didn\u2019t want my daughter to become like my mum.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another schoolgirl, a 16-year-old from Kabul, said it was a \u201csorrowful day\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to become a doctor! And that dream has vanished. I don\u2019t think they would let us go back to school. Even if they open the high schools again, they don\u2019t want women to become educated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the Taliban announced that women would be allowed to study at universities, but they would not be able to do so alongside men and would face a new dress code.<\/p>\n

Some suggested the new rules would exclude women from education because the universities do not have the resources to provide separate classes.<\/p>\n

Barring girls from secondary schools will also mean none will be able to go on to further education.<\/p>\n

Since the Taliban were removed from power in 2001, enormous progress has been made in improving Afghanistan\u2019s education enrollments and literacy rates \u2013 especially for girls and women.<\/p>\n

The number of girls in primary schools increased from almost zero to 2.5 million, while the female literacy rate nearly doubled in a decade to 30%. However, many of the gains have been made in cities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a setback in the education of Afghan women and girls,\u201d said Nororya Nizhat, a former Education Ministry spokesperson.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis reminds everyone of what the Taliban did in the 90s. We ended up with a generation of illiterate and non-educated women.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shortly after taking power the Taliban said the rights of women in Afghanistan would be respected \u201cwithin the framework of Islamic law\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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