Naseebullah khan
It has been a year and one month that the doors of education have been closed for the Afghan Girls. A game of hide and seek has been playing by the government where the Taliban have allowed the Afghan girls to read untill primary level. Above primary level, the dream of getting higher education of the Afghan girls remains a dream. Many special scholarship programmes for the Afghan women particulalry the Oxford scholarship programs have stopped during the Taliban rule. Whatever the Talibn, the anti_Hamid Karzai and anti_Ashraf Ghani forces call the past 2 decades in Afghanistan, but one thing lusters that the women education sector in the country flourished with an accelerated speed. For instance, half of students were female in the university of Kabul prior to the take over of the Taliban_who have now confined to their houses where their energies as being wasted and are being barred from becoming productive citizen. How sad that a graduate pass student has been appointed as the VC of Kabul University in the presence of hundreds of Ph.d Gems. The Holy Prophet Muhammad peace be upon Him also justifies women education. From religious point of view availing education is Compulsory for both male and female. In anHadith Prophet Muhammad PBUH says that avail education for which if you have to go to China. The beloved wife of Prophet Muhammad PBUH Hazrath Aisha RA was herself a well versed in Hadiths who has quoted around 2210 Hadiths at the same times she was the tutor of many compliers of the Hadiths including Urwa bibt Zubair. We have numerous exapmles of females intellectuals and religions scholars throughout Islamic history. The responsiblity of providing education lays on the government. If the Taliban don’t allow male mentors to teach females students then the Taliban should arrange females mentors. If not, then with required staff classes in morning and evening can also be arranged. They can also hire those females students who have qualified their graduation. It will help two fold as on one side the females educated qualifiers would be employed on the other side the education of women folk would not stop too. When you (the Taliban) stop girls from getting education then how will in future you expect the generation of women teachers, lecturers, and professors who would teach the women folk? How would it be possible for the Taliban to expect women docters to treat the females patients especially in delivery cases as a matter of fact the cultural and religious obligations in the country donot allow male docters to investigate a delivery case of a female patient? Those who learn from history and go shoulder by shoulder with the requirments and needs of the world are sane. It looks that the Taliban have not learnt for almost 3 decades experience. The Taliban are wrong completely wrong with respect to women education. The incumbent government has myriad of challanges of ecnomic meltdown, healthcare, administrative, foreign acceptance, and much more. It is better for the Taliban focus on overcoming these obstacles and donot waste their energies on stopping girls from being educated. The Taliban must acknowledge the gravity of the situation and the reality that Afghanistan as a developed, progressive, and prosperous state matters. Stopping girls from education will not help in Afghanistan prosprous, rather it will further plunge the country in a quagmire that will further result in an irreparable loss for the country. This gender apartheid will lead the country to no where.