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A senior Taliban official said the rights of women to work and go to school, as well as how they dress, will be determined by a council of Islamic scholars.
A senior Taliban leader has said that the role of women in Afghanistan, including their right to work and education and how they should dress, would ultimately be decided by a council of Islamic scholars.
“Our ulema (scholars) will decide whether girls are allowed to go to school or not,” Waheedullah Hashimi, who has access to the group’s decision-making, told Reuters.
“They will decide whether they should wear hijab, burqa, or only (a) veil plus abaya or something, or not. That is up to them.”
The hijab is usually a scarf covering the head, the burqa is an all-enveloping robe while the abaya is a robe that leaves the face uncovered.
On Tuesday, the Taliban’s main spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, told a news conference in Kabul that women would be allowed to work and study and “will be very active in society but within the framework of Islam.”
During their 1996-2001 rule, also guided by Islamic law, the Taliban stopped women from working. Girls were not all…
