No education for Afghan women

Aug 28 2023 The BBC

Taliban stop female Afghan students leaving country to study in Dubai

Some 100 Afghan women have been granted a scholarship to study at the University of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates from Emirati billionaire businessman Sheikh Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor.

The scholarships were announced in December 2022 after the Taliban banned women from university.

But Taliban officials stopped them at the airport, saying women are not allowed to leave Afghanistan on a student visa.

The Taliban has banned solo travel for women and only allow them to go abroad with their husbands or a related male companion such as a brother, uncle or father, known as a mahram, a male escort.

But in this case, even that was not enough, some women who had a mahram, were pulled off the plane.

So far, the Taliban have declined to comment.

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I’ll just add a thought here.

How solid is the base of a regime, if educating women who live under it, is a threat to them?