Education under the shadow of coercion; Increase in girls in religious schools in Nangarhar
With schools closed to girls, many families in Nangarhar have turned to religious education as the only remaining option.
Local sources say that girls are now studying up to the 12th grade in dozens of home-based religious schools built in alleys and houses. The Taliban have allowed these schools to operate and consider their degrees equivalent to official government school certificates.
The content of these schools mainly includes exegesis, hadith, jurisprudence, and Arabic; But families say that this education cannot meet all the academic and social needs of girls.
With the Taliban banning girls from education beyond the sixth grade, the only educational opportunity for many Afghan girls is limited to the limited space of religious schools. This situation has thrown the educational future of thousands of girls into uncertainty.
