KABUL: The Taliban ordered secondary girls schools in Afghanistan to shutWednesday just hours after they reopened, an official confirmed, sparkingconfusion over the policy reversal by the hardline group.
“Yes, it’s true,” Taliban spokesman Inamullah Samangani told *AFP* whenasked to confirm reports that girls had been ordered home.
An *AFP* team was filming at Zarghona High School in the capital Kabul whena teacher entered and ordered everyone to go home.
Crestfallen students, back in class for the first time since the Talibanseized power in August last year, tearfully packed up their belongings andfiled out.
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The international community has made the right to education for all asticking point in negotiations over aid and recognition of the new Talibanregime.
