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Taliban allows Afghan women to attend university, bans mixed-gender classes

Muslim women walking together. [Courtesy]

Women in Afghanistan have been allowed to attend classes at the university but only if their studies are in line with the Taliban’s interpretation of the Islam law, Taliban’s acting minister for higher education Abdul Baqi said.

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