Taliban leader sent their children to schools
New Delhi: A top UN official on Monday claimed that some Taliban leaders have themselves sent their female children to schools run with the support of the international body.
Louis-Georges Arsenault, who was UNICEF Representative in Afghanistan from 1998 to 2001, also claimed that Taliban issued fatwa against girls’ education during their regime (1996 to 2011) as the group feared that “movement” of women and girls on the streets would “distract the focus” of their fighters from their “task ahead”.
Arsenault, who took over as UNICEF India Representative a couple of months ago, made these remarks this while addressing the National Consultation on Education in Areas Affected by Civil Strife here.
Despite the diktat, there were NGOs, community leaders and teachers who were in hiding providing some kind of education to the children in some parts of the country.
According to the UNICEF, Arsenault, despite the Taliban’s edicts against girls’ education, initiated several projects to arrange private schooling for them.
