The Afghan Taliban administration did not attend a global summit on girls’ education in the Muslim world that was held in Islamabad, Pakistan announced on Saturday.
“We had extended an invitation to Afghanistan but no-one from the Afghan government was at the conference,” education minister of Pakistan, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui told the news agency. He said that the event will feature officials from a number of organizations that support girls’ education in Afghanistan. “We had extended an invitation to Afghanistan but no-one from the Afghan government was at the conference,” he said.
A UN agency said last year that the Taliban have deliberately deprived 1.4 million Afghan girls of schooling through bans. The only nation in the world that prohibits secondary and university education for women. The UN Agency said that this decision has totally wiped out the steady progress of the education especially of girls in Pakistan. The future is no longer secure.
Due to the ban imposed, parents preferred to drop the education. This will definitely lead to disaster in future. It was reported that Afghanistan had 5.7 million girls in comparison to 6.8 million boys in 2019. In addition, female teachers had also been banned. As a result, it leads to total dropout.
On the contrary, Malala Yousafzai, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, will go to an international meeting on girls’ education that her home country of Pakistan is hosting. As a teenager, she was almost assassinated by militants in her home country.
Yousafzai has only made a few trips back to her homeland since being evacuated in 2012 after being shot by the Pakistan Taliban, who were furious over her campaigning. Yousafzai will attend the meeting, which will concentrate on education in Islamic countries, in person, according to a representative for the nonprofit Malala Fund.
