{"id":25785,"date":"2026-11-10T13:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T13:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/10\/hamid-karzai-calls-reopening-schools-universities-girls-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T13:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T13:36:11","slug":"hamid-karzai-calls-reopening-schools-universities-girls-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/10\/hamid-karzai-calls-reopening-schools-universities-girls-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamid Karzai Urges Reopening of Schools and Universities for Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamid Karzai, the former president of Afghanistan, emphasized the vital role of education in the country&#8217;s progress and reducing dependence on other nations on the occasion of the &#8220;International Day of Science for Peace and Development.&#8221; On Tuesday, November 10, Karzai once again called on authorities to reopen schools and universities to girls as soon as possible, ensuring educational opportunities for all citizens. Karzai added that Afghanistan can only achieve true prosperity and development when the younger generation is educated and informed, and when development is based on science and knowledge. These remarks come as the Taliban administration continues to ban education for girls beyond the sixth grade, a restriction considered a major factor contributing to the country&#8217;s backwardness and its negative social and economic consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai calls for reopening schools and universities to girls, highlighting education&#8217;s crucial role in development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25785","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=25785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}