Mohamed Ashraf Ghairat said on his official Twitter account, “Women will not be allowed to come or work in universities until a genuine Islamic environment is provided for all. Islam first.”

Earlier on Monday, Ghairat tweeted in Pashto that the university was working on a plan to teach girl students, but did not say when the plan would be completed.

“Due to the lack of female lecturers, we are working on a plan for male lecturers to be able to teach female students behind a curtain in the classroom. In this way an Islamic environment is created for female students to receive education. Will go,” he said. wrote on Twitter.

His appointment as Chancellor of Kabul University completed by the Taliban with a storm of criticism because of his lack of credibility. Ghairat countered those assessments on Twitter, saying he saw himself “totally qualified to hold this chair”.

The Taliban, who ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 but were forced out of power following a US-led invasion, have historically treated women as second-class citizens, subjecting them to violence, forced marriage and The country has been subjected to an almost invisible presence.

After recapturing the capital Kabul in August, the Taliban’s leadership claimed it would not impose such harsh conditions in power this time around.

But those promises were not fulfilled. The absence of any female representatives from its newly formed interim government and the almost overnight disappearance of women from the country’s streets have raised major concerns about what will happen next for half of its population.

In some cases, militants have ordered women to leave their workplaces, and when a group of women protested the announcement of an all-male government in Kabul, they were beaten up by Taliban fighters. whips and sticks.
women are still allowed to continue their university education. But the Taliban have mandated gender segregation in classrooms and said that girl students, lecturers and staff must wear the hijab in accordance with the group’s interpretation of Sharia law.

Source: CNN