Govt working on women, girls higher education strategy: Khairkhwa

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Deputy Higher Education Minister Lutfullah Khairkhwa on Sunday said that a strategy was being worked out on the bases of which women, girls would be allowed to get higher education in the framework of Islamic Sharia Law.

He expressed the view during a meeting with officials of the private universities in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province.

Tariq Kamal, head of the Private Universities and Higher Education Institutions Union said the number of their students dropped by half after ban of girls higher education in the country.

He said ban on women higher education put private institution in financial crises.

“We shared the problems related to women higher education with the ministry in the past and the ministry assured that this problem would be resolved,” he said.

Meanwhile, Deputy Higher Education Minister Lutfullah Khairkhwa said that a strategy was being worked out on the bases of which women would be allowed to get higher education.

He assured the strategy would be finalized in the near future and women students would be allowed to get higher education.

People in Nangarhar province also stressed that women should be allowed to get higher education.

Mirza Khan, the resident of Jalalabad City, said women reserved the right to get higher education besides men.

He asked that government to provide higher education facilities to women besides creating hurdles.

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