Kabul: Hundreds of young women were stopped by armed guards on Wednesday from entering Afghan university campuses, a day after the nation's Taliban rulers banned them from higher education in another assault on human rights.
The decision to bar women from universities came late Tuesday in a terse announcement from Neda Mohammad Nadeem, the Minister for Higher Education. Most teenage girls across the country have already been banned from secondary school, severely limiting university intake anyway. "The latest decision will increase these differences," a Taliban commander based in northwest Pakistan told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Since the ban, many teenage girls have been married off early - often to much older men of their father's choice. "I'm disappointed by the decision that was taken today," Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said Tuesday on a visit to Washington.
Sad to see where religion is used as an excuse for this tyranny.
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