KABUL—Women account for some 60% of the 2,400 college students enrolled at Kabul’s Ghalib College, one of quite a few private faculties that sprang up in Afghanistan around the previous two many years. When it reopened this week underneath new Taliban principles, with ladies and gentlemen instructed to attend on alternate times, only 21 feminine college students showed up.
“The women of all ages learners need to have to get well their commitment, and their courage. Most of them are too scared to depart their homes,” stated Fatima Sediqi, the head of educational affairs at the university’s school of legislation and political science. “In the past, anyone went via a darkish time period. Recalling that time is scaring us, unquestionably.”