The Taliban’s foreign minister faced questions on Afghan girls and women being banned from education and work as he sat down for a rare press conference in Delhi on Sunday, attended by women journalists.
Amir Khan Muttaqi, a UN-sanctioned leader and senior minister in the Taliban’s de facto regime in Afghanistan, claimed education of girls and women was not “haram”, or declared forbidden under laws governing Islam, and has been postponed until the next order of the country’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada.
