BAMYAN, AFGHANISTAN – Female students above the sixth in Bamyan province have stated that for the past three years, the gates of schools and universities across the country have been closed to girls. They are urging the caretaker government of the Taliban to reopen the gates of schools for them in the current solar year of 1403.
Masouma, a seventh-grade student at one of the girls’ schools in Bamyan province during the Republic government, expressed, “When the Taliban closed the schools to us girls, all my hopes and aspirations turned to dust. I cried, shed tears countless times, but it is clear that women and girls are the main victims of the Taliban’s biased policies.”
“I had hoped to grow in the future, stand on my own feet, complete my education, and study at the best university. However, unaware that the Taliban crushed girls’ hopes with a hammer and made us confined at home, not only me but thousands of girls became victims and spent their days in melancholy and sadness in the corners of their homes,” Masouma said.
Nikbakht, a ninth-grade student at one of the girls’ high schools in Bamyan province during the Republic government, told the Afghanistan Women’s News Agency, “Before the Solar New Year, I expected that schools would surely reopen for us girls in the year 1403. When I turned on the television and followed the news, I saw that the school bells rang, but without the presence of girls above the sixth grade. For the hundredth time, I became disappointed. I, who was the top student in school until the ninth grade and was striving to serve my fellow citizens, can no longer achieve my lofty goals. Most girls struggle with mental and emotional challenges due to the closure of schools. But who understands girls in Afghanistan, who understands what girls in this country endure and what they desire?”
“My father is illiterate and has told me many times, My daughter, three years have passed, and the schools are closed to girls. I want to marry you off because you will find freedom from people’s words and have a household and a life of your own. If schools do not reopen for us girls, I am forced to marry, which the burden of this news eats me up from within and destroys me,” Nikbakht added.
The doors of schools have been closed to girls above the sixth grade by the Taliban for three years. This has plunged the future of these girls into darkness, and the closure of schools has caused psychological and emotional problems for some of these students, with some female students across the country contemplating suicide.
- نویسنده : Afghanistan Women News Agency
- منبع خبر : Afghanistan Women News Agency
