It is begun.
[KhaamaPress] Taliban
...Arabic for students...
officials in western Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
province have ordered the government and private universities that girls will no longer be allowed to sit in the same classes with boys.
Damn. No burka raids, I guess.
In a three-hour meeting between university lecturers, owners of private institutions, and the Taliban officials, the latter said that there is no alternative and justification for continuing co-education and must be ended.
Afghanistan has a mixed system of both co-education and separate classes with schools functioning separate classes while co-education is applied both in government and private universities and institutes around the country.
Lecturers in Western Herat province have reasoned that the government universities and institutes can manage separate classes but because of the limited number of female students in private institutions, the latter cannot afford to create separate classrooms.
Mullah Farid, head of higher education of Afghanistan Islamic Emirate who was representing the Taliban in the meeting in Herat province has said that co-education should be ended because the system is the root of all evils in society. Farid as an alternative suggested that female lecturers or elderly male ones who are virtuous are allowed to teach female students and for the co-education, there is neither an alternative nor any justification to be continued.
Lecturers in Herat province said, since private institutions cannot afford separate classes, thousands of girls may remain deprived of higher education.
There are reportedly around 40,000 students and 2,000 lecturers in private and government universities and institutions in the province.
Ghor: Taliban Ban Music, Women’s Voices from TV
[Breitbart] The Afghan media outlet Pajhwok reported on Friday that Taliban
...Arabic for
students...
jihadists announced a ban on all music and the broadcast of women’s and girls’ voices in at least one province.
The edict reportedly came down in Ghor province, following reports from Kabul that jihadists invaded major news network headquarters and banned women journalists from going to work. Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid promised in a presser on Tuesday that the radical Islamist terrorist organization would not interfere with media activities that did not contradict the group’s interpretation of sharia, or Islamic law.
Under the Taliban’s rule prior to the 2001 American invasion of Afghanistan, the regime forbade women from working, leaving their homes without a full-body covering (burqa), and denied women almost every basic right recognized by international human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal
liberty...
institutions. Current Taliban spokesmen have insisted that their rule would respect women’s rights this time, vowing an "inclusive" government.
The Taliban returned to power on Sunday after surrounding Kabul, the nation’s capital. Taliban jihadists launched a campaign to conquer the nation in April, following President Joe
The Big GuyBiden
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan...’s announcement that he would not honor an agreement brokered by predecessor Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
that required U.S. forces to leave the country by May 1. Between April and July, the Taliban launched 22,000 individual attacks, according to the former Afghan government.
"Media officials in Ghor say that although all local media outlets have been shut down since the Taliban took control of Ghor province, the group has been unable to resume broadcasting due to strict rules," Pajhwok reported on Friday.
"The head of culture information of the Islamic Emirate [the Taliban] in Ghor asked us not to publish music in our programs, not to hire female employees," Maroof Saeedi, the director of the regional Ghorbeh Border Radio, told Pajhwok, "and even the listeners who call in our programs should not publish the voices of girls and should not be published in commercial messages."
The outlet reported that Ghor hosts four media networks, all of which have been forced to broadcast jihadist propaganda since the Taliban took over the country last Sunday.
A Taliban representative told Pajhwok that the reports were false and that the jihadists had not imposed any new media rules in Ghor, urging the network not to report any news not coming directly from Mujahid, the front man.