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New Delhi: Even when the Afghan Islamic Emirates continue to deny education to girls outside the sixth grade, more than two dozen leading Taliban leaders educate their daughters in schools in Doha, Peshawar and Karachi, sources who are familiar with the movement.Leaders included Health Minister Qalandar Ebad, Deputy Foreign Minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, and spokesman for Suhail Shaheen.
Two daughters of Suhail Shaheen’s studies in schools regulated by countries in Doha, houses in the Islamic Emirates’s political office, along with their three sons, a source familiar with the family. Older girls, said the source, even playing soccer for her school team.Qalandar Ebad – Doctor trained, with a degree of Nangarhar University and Pakistani Medical Institute, Islamabad – ensure medical education for his daughter, who now works as a doctor in Islamabad, said the sources.
Putri Stanikzai, the source added, has completed her medical education in Doha, attending high school education in a famous school.Write did not receive a response from Shaheen’s spokesman’s office, looking for comments about Islamic Emirates officials who educated their daughters abroad.When they took over Afghanistan last year, the authorities in the Islamic Emirates – when the Taliban called the country – repeatedly promised to open education for girls, but turned back hours of their decision after school reopened on March 23.Leadership held a recent meeting and discussed in detail women’s schools, “said Taliban spokesman Bilal Karimi.” They, however, decided to keep the school closed until further meetings. “
The Islamic Emirates have also moved women from work, and limits their ability to travel without male relatives. Last year, Emirate Islamic services for virtue promotion and representative prevention of representing posters throughout Kabul, encouraged women to wear a comprehensive burqa, although there were no official orders issued.The leaders of the Islamic Emirates claimed that last year, in addition to problems related to curriculum and uniforms, they did not have funds for schools.However, in January, US special representatives for Afghanistan, Tom West, said he would pay all teacher salaries if the school was reopened for girls.
Taliban children studying abroad
Children from some of the ministers of the Senior Islamic Emirates and civil servants, diplomatic sources, are now studying in ‘Iqra’ schools – which offer a mixture of modern education with Islamic subjects – in Peshawar and Karachi.The daughters of at least four members of the strong Taliban military commission are believed to have studied in Iqra schools, before the group seized Kabul last year.
Iqra school – which combines religious study content traditionally offered in seminary with subjects such as English, science and computer – aspire “to make Muslims and their true Muslim children”, the beliefs they said.Researcher Sabawoon Samim revealed in a report, it was released earlier this year, that a Taliban commander even runs my own Iqra-style school for girls in Quetta, completing traditional Madrassa subjects with classes in mathematics, science and English.In addition, Samim reported, Top Taliban leaders took the second educated wife.The trend also runs along with several Taliban officials and commanders [SIC] devaluing their existing wives to become rural, illiterate and ‘backward’ – not suitable for urban life Some of them have experienced during the takeover after takeover. From Kabul,” Writing Samim.
Taliban officials who educate their own daughters outside Afghanistan are considered to have spoken for education for girls in the Taliban Inner Board.Shaheen and Stanekzai, said a diplomatic source, has opposed the decision of Emirate Islam to close the school of girls. Last year, Shaheen said that the Syariah Emirates policy had confirmed that “girls go to school and they go to university”.The pro-education group is considered to have supported Islamists with the background of seminarians, such as Deputy Head of State De-Facto Emirates Islam, Sirajuddin Haqqani. Haqqani, a diplomatic source said, has the support of Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghani Baradar and Defense Minister Muhammad Yaqub.
Last week, a strong coalition of Afghan scholars supported the call to school girls to be reopened, arguing that women’s education received support from Islamic law and the Bible.
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