Deputy Minister of Information and Culture and Spokesperson for the Islamic Emirates Afghanistan Zabiullah Mujahid spoke with a news agency based in the Taliban not against education, but boys and girls must be fully separated at school, reporting tolo news.

The spokesman said that higher schools in most provinces were reopened and in several provinces, they were still closed due to economic problems.

He stressed that girls and boys will be separated in classrooms and they work to build more hostels for girls around Afghanistan.

It’s been almost six months that 150 state universities have been closed in Afghanistan while in 40 private universities study of boys and girls, reported the Khaama press.

Since the Taliban takeover in mid-August, girls in most Afghanistan have not been allowed to return to school outside the 7th grade.

The closing of the school of girls has been filled with sharp reactions in the country and from the international community.

Meanwhile, a number of female students who remained out of school said the Islamic Emirates had to keep their promise and reopen schools in the new year, reporting Tolo news.

“We have heard many promises but these promises must be practical. We are deprived of going to school because Covid-19 and then because of recent changes in the country,” said Bahara, a student.

“We call for the reopening of schools, and the government must open the land for this,” said Azada, a student.

A number of female teachers said they had not received their salaries for five months and they urged the Islamic Emirates to overcome their challenges, reported Tolo news.

“We have not been called to school for the past five months. Even the teachers in schools face uncertain fate,” said Suhaila Omar Zada, a teacher.