The 18-year-old high school graduate said being told by the Taliban she couldn't attend university was the worst day of her life.
The Taliban kicked Bilqees Mohmand out of college after announcing a ban on university education for women.Foreign Minister Penny Wong has condemned the Taliban's announcement in a joint statement with 12 other countries.Hours earlier, she was devastated to hear that Afghanistan's Taliban rulers had imposed an immediateBut the 18-year-old studied English at a language academy in Kabul and was naively hopeful that she could continue with her studies there.
Bilqees recently completed high school and was preparing to apply to a private university in Kabul, where she lives, in the hope of studying medicine."A day of education without students is a day wasted for the future of the country," she said.The Taliban adheres to a conservative interpretation of Islam, with the movement's supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and his inner circle of Afghan clerics against modern education, especially for girls and women.
Marwa said the Taliban's recent slew of bans on public affairs for women is an indication that their rhetoric was untrue. But she looks back with a sense of despair: her sister, who is stuck in Afghanistan, can no longer complete the medical degree she was studying. Senator Wong signed a joint statement with 12 countries as well as the European Union condemning the "relentless and systemic" measures by the Taliban against girls and women.
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