After more than 500 days since the Taliban banned female students first from secondary schools, then later from universities in August 2021, four Afghan women talk about what their lives have become without schooling. “My only sin is being a girl.
Another school year is underway in Afghanistan, but missing from classrooms across the country are girls and young women.
Pashtuns mainly live in the south and east of Afghanistan and, according to a national news agency, the majority of Taliban officials also belong to this ethnicity. Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras and Uzbeks make up the majority of Afghanistan’s nearly 30 million population, besides the other ethnicities. “I have been very interested in engineering since childhood. I saw myself belonging to drawing, solving mathematical problems and working on new buildings, as an engineer. I don’t have any aspirations now,” Saba said, speaking in Persian.
Kashifpor said that she used to teach English and Arabic to girls in eighth and ninth grades. She added that the motivation she saw in her students was very rewarding. “I don’t have a good financial situation; my father is not alive and my mother is sick. My brother was a soldier during the republic, but he is currently unemployed. He drove a taxi for a few days, but he did not get any income.”
Naseri said that the most bitter time of her life was the day when the Taliban took over Afghanistan.
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