At the Pak-Afghan Stakeholders Dialogue on Regional Stability and Economic Connectivity, participants – comprising eminent religious and tribal leaders, academicians, and trade and media personnel from Pakistan and Afghanistan – underpinned the need for reopening girls’ schools and amelioration of the educational landscape in Afghanistan.
The participants underscored that the normalization of Afghan girls’ education is an undebatable demand. “We cannot do without education. I ask you all, how is it possible for the Afghan women living under IEA to access sound healthcare in the absence of female doctors, and to meet country’s future healthcare needs with the current ban on education”, said a female delegate.
Noting the current state of Afghan girls’ education and women’s rights, the group extrapolated that the advocacy and outcry on these issues has so far not born the expected outcomes as the Qandahar faction of the Taliban.
