by Monica Ricci Sargentini
The gesture of Ismail Meshal, who teaches at Kabul University: This is not a country where you can continue your education. A further 41 professors are leaving.
Since the Taliban, Afghanistan is no longer a place to study, if my mother and sister can’t study, I don’t agree to teach. Professor Ismail Meshal, a professor at Kabul University, shows his degrees one by one on Tolo TV and then tears them to pieces. The video went viral on Twitter and was also shared by Shabnam Nasimi, a former adviser to Afghanistan’s Ministry of Reconstruction, now based in London: Surprising scenes in Afghanistan where a teacher destroys his diplomas on live TV and says I don’t accept this. Instruction
But Meshal isn’t the only one, there are at least 41 university professors who have resigned after Higher Education Minister Neda Mohammad Nadeem ordered a ban on December 20 in an executive order sent to all state and private universities in the country access to universities. A decision that triggered the protest of the students, who took to the streets despite the reaction of the police, who immediately arrested them. But the boys also challenged the measure. happened at Nangarhar University in Jalalabad, where students refused to take exams.
There have been deals between the United States and the Taliban that have harmed the people of Afghanistan, especially women, a professor said, asking for anonymity. A few days ago we learned that the Taliban have banned women from universities. All the professors and teachers feared the arrival of this news – he continued – and since some students were about to take the annual exams, we decided to bring them forward before implementing the Taliban decision. But the trick didn’t work. Most students come to university to take exams; However, Taliban forces entered the classrooms and did not allow the students to attend. We tried to keep the trials secret, but our efforts went up in smoke.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres tweeted that the Kabul government should backtrack: The Taliban’s recent restrictions on the employment and education of women and girls are unjustified human rights abuses and must be lifted. Actions to marginalize and silence women and girls continue to cause immense suffering and a major setback to the potential of the Afghan people, she added.
December 28, 2022 (change December 28, 2022 | 13:07)
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