UN revokes travel privileges for two Taliban education officials

s to go abroad for talks and negotiations were set to expire on Monday.

According to a diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity, the officials now banned from travelling are Said Ahmad Shaidkhel, the deputy education minister, and Abdul Baqi Basir Awal Shah - also known as Abdul Baqi Haqqani - the minister of higher education. The decree, which stops hundreds of thousands of teenage girls from attending schools, was met with international outrage."Such decisions will only make the situation more critical," deputy minister of higher education Lutfullah Khairkhwa told AFP.

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