The U.S. ambassador hopes that in the coming days teenage girls will be able to attend colleges and high schools.

The Taliban had promised to allow girls to attend middle and high schools. But on March 23, the day of their return to school, they finally changed their minds and sent the teenage girls home.

Published 6:12 pm on 03/26/2022

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The United States hopes the Taliban will reverse its decision to exclude girls from high schools in Afghanistan. “In the next few days”, Thomas West was announced as the U.S. ambassador to the country on Saturday, March 26th. In retaliation, Washington later canceled talks with the Taliban.

The Taliban, who have been in power in Afghanistan since August 2021, reversed on Wednesday the decision to allow girls to attend middle and high schools, just hours after a long reopening. “Our policy is not against female education,” he said. Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen told AFP. According to him, “There are some practical issues” Those who do not “Scheduled deadline for opening girls’ schools not resolved before March 23”.

Audiences fear that the country’s new masters will ban school for girls again, as they did during their first regime from 1996 to 2001. “I hope we see them coming back [cette] Results in the next few days “Thomas West said on the sidelines of the forum in Doha, the capital of Qatar.