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A new Afghan policy

by Muhammad Amir Rana in Dawn, January 8th, 2023The writer is a security analyst.WITH the Taliban having banned their education, Pakistan can allow Afghan female students to complete their degrees in Pakistan. This would allow the country to embark on a new Afghan policy, which it direly needs after its recent disappointments with the Taliban regime. Pakistan’s Afghan policy has remained strategic-centric, which needs a radical transformation. A new Afghan policy should focus on a…

Delawar Expects Decision on Women, Girls’ Education Next Year

By Fatema Adeeb in ToloNews, dec 27, 2022 at 9:52 PMActing Minister of Petroleum and Mines Shahabuddin Delawar on Tuesday said that a decision will be made soon regarding schools and universities for female students. He referred to the decree of the Islamic Emirate’s supreme leader and said it was instructing a temporary order. He said the decision will be made in the first month of the next solar year (April 2023) based on the…

Nadim Outlines Reasons for Closure of Universities for Women

By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in ToloNews, Dec 23, 2022Acting Minister of Higher Education Neda Mohammad Nadim said on Thursday that some reforms planned by the Islamic Emirate were not implemented in the higher education sector over the past 16 months. Speaking to the RTA, Nadim outlined four reasons for the closure of universities for female students. He said the presence of women at dormitories and their arrival from provinces without male companions, lack of observation…

Hefajat rearing its head again

Report in The Daily Star, Dec 16, 2022After a long hiatus, Hefajat-e Islam, the Qawmi madrasa-based organisation is becoming active to strengthen the organisation once again and press home its 13-point demand, including scrapping “anti-Islam” women and education policies. The outfit is going to organise a conference tomorrow in Dhaka. As the tenure of current government is nearing an end, Hefajat has apparently taken a move to strengthen the organisation and put pressure on the…