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[International Business Times] The ban on education for women has sparked more interest in the Taliban...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
and its relationship with Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi..., especially in the conversation around education. It was reported in February by both The Telegraph and The Guardian that high-ranking Taliban officials have been sending their daughters to Qatar for school while simultaneously preventing Afghan women from obtaining an education.
The first reports of Taliban officials sending their daughters overseas for school came from a February Afghan Analysis Network report. The report states multiple Taliban officials have daughters in school outside of Afghanistan.
The report lists examples, including a daughter of a Taliban official studying medicine at a Qatari university and members of the Taliban negotiating team in Qatar are sending their daughters to school.
AAN reports other Taliban members working in Qatar have left their families in the country when returning to Afghanistan so as not to pull their children out of school. Some officials send their children, regardless of gender, to schools in neighboring Iraq and Pakistain.
"Education allows them to live a good life. They know the rights of a husband better and can better train your sons and daughters. This is why a literate wife is a necessity nowadays," a Taliban minister told AAN. However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things...
millions of girls and women in Afghanistan have been stopped from attending school. In August, the Middle East Eye reported the Taliban stopped 60 girls from flying to Qatar to go to school.