PUL-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): Taliban insurgents have shut girls’ schools above sixth grade in central Logar province, depriving thousands of children of their right to education, an official said on Thursday.
Logar Director of Education, NisarAhmad Saeedi, told Pajhwok Afghan News Taliban insurgents had ordered closed girls’ schools above sixth grade in the provincial capital and districts from the past one month.
He said 60 girls’ high schools and secondary schools had been shut, depriving thousands of girls of lessons.
Saeedi added the Taliban had warned staff of schools over the phone not to show up at schools which resulted . . .
