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Kabul Only Banned ‘Specific Secular Liberal Education’: UK Cleric

By Nazir Shinwari in ToloNews, Sept 17, 2023 at 8:07 PMShaykh Hamid Mahmood, a member of the delegation of British religious scholars who recently came to Kabul, said that all girls go to schools up to age 10 or 11 in Afghanistan and girls can continue education in specific subjects and he added that education has not completely stopped. Shaykh Hamid said: “It’s a temporary suspension not on education, temporary suspension on specific secular liberal…

Calls grow for Nepal to ditch secularism as India’s ruling BJP pushes its Hindu-nationalist agenda

by Kunal Purohit in SCMP, June 19, 2023Nepal’s former king Gyanendra Shah made a rare public appearance earlier this year in the Himalayan nation’s Jhapa district to launch a movement to change the country’s secular constitution and reinstate its identity as a Hindu kingdom. Thousands of Nepalis gathered at the February event to back the cause, with several marches occurring across the country since. Last month, just days before Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal,…