{"id":13927,"date":"2026-05-30T07:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/30\/taliban-leader-women-education-forbidden-kabul\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T07:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:16:08","slug":"taliban-leader-women-education-forbidden-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/30\/taliban-leader-women-education-forbidden-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Taliban Religious Leader Declares Women\u2019s Education \u2018Absolutely Forbidden\u2019 in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Taliban\u2019s religious council in Kabul has stated that it is &#8220;absolutely forbidden&#8221; for women to attend school and that they are not even allowed to participate in religious schools. These remarks were made in an audio recording released on social media, sparking widespread reactions.<\/p>\n<p>In the audio file, Mawlawi Din Muhammad described sciences and technology as &#8220;useless and futile knowledge&#8221; and emphasized that education is not permitted for women. Without citing any specific religious or legal basis, he categorically stated this prohibition.<\/p>\n<p>These statements come amid the Taliban administration\u2019s imposition of extensive restrictions on the education and employment of women and girls across the country since its return to power. Girls above the sixth grade remain barred from attending schools, and university doors remain closed to women.<\/p>\n<p>The continuation of these policies has made Afghanistan one of the few countries in the world to systematically deny women access to secondary and higher education. Women\u2019s rights activists have repeatedly urged the Taliban to lift these restrictions and recognize education as a fundamental right for all residents of the country, but no significant changes have been observed so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban&#8217;s top religious leader in Kabul declares women&#8217;s education &#8220;absolutely forbidden,&#8221; reinforcing strict bans amid ongoing restrictions in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-secondary-headline","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}