'Why can't we study?': Afghan girls still barred from school

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KABUL: Afghan teenager Amena saw dozens of classmates killed when her girls\u0027 school was targeted by an Islamic State bomb attack in May, but she was determined to continue her education. Now, like most secondary school girls in the country, she is banned from lessons altogether after the Taliban\u0027s hardline

KABUL: Afghan teenager Amena saw dozens of classmates killed when her girls' school was targeted by an Islamic State bomb attack in May, but she was determined to continue her education.

Reports have emerged of girls going back to a few high schools - such as in Kunduz province where the Taliban promoted the return with a stage-managed rally. Primary schools, meanwhile, have reopened for all children and women can go to private universities, though with tough restrictions on their clothes and movement.Amena lives just a short walk from her Sayed Al-Shuhada High School, where 85 people - mainly young girls - perished in the May bomb attack.

Her siblings help her at home, and occasionally she gets lessons from a psychologist who comes to see her younger sister, still traumatised by the school attack. "Afghan women have made great achievements in the past 20 years," said Nasrin Hasani, a 21-year-old teacher at a Kabul secondary school who now helps out with primary pupils.

 

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