Afghan women reel from university ban while some male students and professors have vowed not to return to class in wake of ban. “Taliban have taken away our hopes. I felt I was spending a long gloomy night that would never end after I heard the news.'
Saedia Safi, a 21-year-old medical student, had been preparing to take the final exam of her sixth semester when she was told that women and girls would no longer be allowed at Afghan colleges and universities — and that female students in the dormitory should leave.
“I called to my mother and we both continued to cry. Then she said that I had to go home, because everything had been destroyed.” Safi said the students’ dress code was exactly what the Taliban had requested — they were covered from head to toe, even their eyes were not visible. But Nadeem characterized that international condemnation as interference in Afghanistan’s internal affairs.
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