Vahid Omar Condemns Taliban’s Ban on Girls’ Education as a ‘Historic Crime’
With the start of the 1405 solar year academic calendar on the second of Hamal, Vahid Omar, former advisor to Afghanistan’s previous presidency, described the continued ban on girls’ education imposed by the Taliban administration as a “historic crime.” He stated that while school bells ring today across the country, millions of Afghan girls remain behind the closed doors of schools and universities.
According to Omar, closing the doors of education to girls is essentially depriving an entire generation of their fundamental right to education and carries long-term and irreversible consequences for Afghanistan’s future. He emphasized that such an action is equivalent to destroying the life opportunities for a whole generation.
The political figure also added that the Afghan people will never forget the Taliban administration’s decision. He highlighted that the systematic deprivation of girls from education is not merely an administrative restriction but a deep blow to the fabric of society and the country’s development.
Despite several years under Taliban rule, secondary and high schools for girls, as well as universities, remain closed to girls in most regions of the country. This issue has consistently drawn widespread domestic and international criticism, becoming one of the most serious points of reproach against the Taliban administration’s performance.
