KABUL - Another girlsâ school has been torched in Afghanistan, which is battling insurgents loyal to the ousted fundamentalist Taleban regime that banned education for women, an official said on Sunday.
The primary school, 65 kilometres from Kabul in Logar province, was under renovation and the girls were studying in tents, provincial criminal investigation director Qudratullah Arabzai told AFP. âThe school, the tents, the chairs, generator and a vehicle were destroyed in the fire,â Arabzai said.
The building, torched late on Saturday, was the fourth to be burnt in the same district since the collapse of the hardline Taleban regime in late 2001, he said. The official blamed the attack on the âenemies of Afghanistanâ, a term usually used to refer to Taleban remnants.
A string of similar incidents in southern and southeastern Afghanistan has been blamed on loyalists of the Taleban, which banned girls from going to school. They were ousted by US-backed forces in late 2001. Four years after the Taleban were removed, school enrolment among girls remains among the lowest in the world, with less than 10 percent of girls enrolled in secondary schools, according to a UN report this month. |