The Taliban-appointed new chancellor of Kabul University, Mohammad Ashraf Ghairat says women are now barred from teaching or studying at the institution.
Gatekeepers News reports that Ghairat made the announcement via his official Twitter account on Monday, September 27.
He said the ban will continue “until an Islamic environment is created.”
“As long as real Islamic environment is not provided for all, women will not be allowed to come to universities or work. Islam first,” Ghairat said.
Earlier on Monday, Ghairat tweeted in Pashto that the university was working on a plan to accommodate teaching female students but did not say when this plan would be completed by.
“Due to shortage of female lecturers, we are working on a plan for male lecturers to be able to teach female students from behind a curtain in the classroom. That way an Islamic environment would be created for the female students to get education,” he wrote on Twitter.
His appointment as Kabul University’s chancellor by the Taliban was met with a storm of criticism over his lack of credentials. Ghairat countered those assessments on Twitter, saying he saw himself “fully qualified to hold this chair.”
He also laid out his vision for the institution on Tuesday, September 28.
Ghairat said Kabul University’s aim is to become a hub for “all real Muslims around the world to gather, research and study” and to “Islamicize the modern science.”
“I am here to announce that we will be welcoming pro-Muslim scholars and students to benefit from a real Islamic environment,” he wrote on Twitter.
