KABUL (Pajhwok): G7 foreign ministers on Thursday asked the Taliban authorities to reverse the ban on women attending university, saying the move may amount to “a crime against humanity.”
“Taliban policies designed to erase women from public life will have consequences for how our countries engage with the Taliban,” the ministers of the club of rich nations said in a statement, after holding virtual talks.
However, Higher Education Minister Nida Mohammad Nadeem on Thursday defended his decision to ban women from universities, a decree that had triggered a global backlash.
Discussing the matter for the first time in public, Nadeem . . .
