TUESDAY- 5th October, 2021: Girls in Afghanistan remains anxious as the new Taliban government continues to keep schools closed for high school girls.

The new Taliban government in Afghanistan is preventing millions of high school girls from returning to classrooms as it maintains restrictions that keep schools closed.

Millions of girls in Afghanistan are anxious as their schools remains closed, creating fear for the future of their education.

Meanwhile, the government allowed boys of age 10 to 12 to return to classes last month; but said they need to create “a safe environment” for high school girls to return to classes.

The Taliban’s Deputy Minister of Information and Culture, Zabihullah Mujahid, in a statement said the group was working on a “procedure” to allow teenage girls back to school.

Since the Taliban takeover in August 15, Mujahid had pledge in the first press conference that the new government would “allow women to work and study,” as it tried to alleviate fears of its rule between 1996-2001 that was characterized by a curb on women’s rights.

It has been a month and half since the terrorist government came to power, the Taliban has told female government workers to stay at home, announced an all-male cabinet, closed down the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and faced accusations of harassment and abuse of female protesters across the nation’s cities.

The continued exclusion of girls from schools has only elevated fears among the Afghan people that the Taliban could be returning to their hardline rule of the 1990s. Those five years had the distinction of being the only time in modern Afghan history where women and girls were legally barred from education and employment.