A senior Taliban minister who expressed help for reversing the ban on women’ training in Afghanistan seems to have been compelled to flee the nation.
Talking at a commencement ceremony in Khost province, close to the Afghan-Pakistani border, on 20 January, Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, the Taliban’s deputy international minister, criticised the federal government’s ban on women attending secondary colleges and better training.
“There isn’t a excuse for this – not now and never sooner or later,” Stanikzai mentioned. “We’re being unjust to twenty million individuals.
“Through the time of the prophet Muhammad, the doorways of information had been open for each women and men,” he mentioned. “There have been such outstanding ladies that if I had been to elaborate on their contributions, it might take a substantial period of time.”
After this speech, and studies of Stanikzai criticising him, the Taliban’s supreme chief, Hibatullah Akhundzada, allegedly ordered the minister’s arrest and issued a journey ban, which pushed Stanikzai to depart Afghanistan for the United Arab Emirates.
Stanikzai confirmed to native media he had left for Dubai however claimed it was for well being causes. The Taliban had been contacted for remark however didn’t reply.
Because the Taliban’s takeover in 2021, the rights of ladies and women to training, work, journey and showing in public have been severely curtailed.
Final month, the worldwide prison courtroom’s chief prosecutor requested arrest warrants for the Taliban’s supreme chief and Afghanistan’s chief justice on the grounds that their persecution of ladies and women in Afghanistan is against the law in opposition to humanity.
