Malala calls on Taliban to allow girls to return to school in Afghanistan

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Pakistani Taliban as a student, urged the new rulers of Afghanistan to allow girls to return to school.

A month has passed since the taliban Islamists, who seized power in August, barred female students from going back to high school while ordering boys to resume classes.

The taliban They have stated that they will allow the girls to return once they have guaranteed safety and strict segregation according to their interpretation of Islamic law. However, many are skeptical.

“For the Taliban authorities … revoke the de facto ban on girls’ education and immediately reopen secondary schools for them,” they cried out Yousafzai and several Afghan women’s rights activists in an open letter published Sunday.

Malala Yousafzai asked the leaders of Muslim nations to make it clear to the Taliban that “religion does not justify preventing girls from going to school.”

“Afghanistan is now the only country in the world that bans girls’ education,” said the signatories, including the head of the Afghan Human Rights Commission of the last government backed by the United States, Shaharzad Akbar.

The signatories also called on G20 world leaders to provide urgent funding for an educational plan for Afghan children.

Yousafzai was shot by militants from Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the ideological twin of the Afghan Taliban, in his hometown in the Swat Valley while on a school bus in 2012.

Now 24, she advocates for girls’ education and her Malala Fund, a nonprofit organization, has invested $ 2 million in Afghanistan.

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