The Taliban does not allow women to leave the country even with the “Muharram”

And after assuming power in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of US and NATO soldiers in 2021, the Taliban imposed significant restrictions on girls and women. Closing beauty salons or banning popular ones Band Hipat National Park Those allowed to visit are the most important. Girls are not allowed to go to school after the sixth grade, and young women are not allowed to go to university – even if they are about to graduate.

Grants from an Emirati billionaire

This is why some young women – many of whom were about to graduate when the Taliban returned to power – are trying to continue their education abroad. However, the Taliban will not allow this, according to what was reported by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

Thus, 100 Afghan women won a scholarship to study at the University of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Emirati businessman Sheikh Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor launched scholarships for Afghan women last December after the Taliban banned women from attending university.

60 girls were removed

“When the Taliban officials saw our tickets and student visas, they said that girls are not allowed to leave Afghanistan on a student visa,” a BBC grantee in Afghanistan says. At least 60 girls were turned away at the airport.

The Taliban banned women from traveling alone. They are not allowed to travel abroad unless accompanied by a husband or what is called a Mahram, who is a close male companion such as a brother, uncle or father.

Even the “forbidden” was not enough

But in the case of the Dubai grant, even this was not enough. “There were three girls on the plane who had a mahram,” says one of the BBC’s scholarship recipients. “But officials from the Ministry of Order and Virtue removed her from the plane.”

In the end, only a few Afghan female students were able to seize the opportunity to study in Dubai. All of them have already lived abroad and it seems that they have already traveled to Dubai.

2021: “We will allow women to work and study.”

The Taliban proves these facts false: “We will allow women to work and study,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in August 2021. “Women will be very active, but within the framework of Islam.”

In fact, according to the United Nations, around 80% of girls and young women of school age do not go to school.

Also, women in Afghanistan are no longer able to work in all positions. For example, they are banned from working in all NGOs and the United Nations. As a result, female labor force participation decreased by 25% between August 2021 and March 2023.

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