'Worst Nightmare': Taliban Shuts Afghan Girls' Schools Hours After Reopening

In a not-so-surprising U-turn, the Taliban administration in Afghanistan on Wednesday, 23 March, announced that girls would no longer be allowed to attend secondary school. The announcement came on the same day the higher secondary schools reopened for girls – seven months after they were shut.

A Ministry of Education notice said that the schools will remain closed until alterations are made as per Islamic law and Afghan culture, according to the administration's official agency Bakhtar News.

“We inform all girls high schools and those schools that are having female students above class six that they are off until the next order,” the notice said.