‘They Do Not Teach us What We Need’: Inside the Expansion of Religious Schools for Girls across Afghanistan
Isobel Yeung and Mick Krever | 04 August 2025 | CNN World
“I want” – the girl stops herself – “I wanted to be a doctor in the future. But when the Taliban came to Afghanistan, all the doors of schools were closed.”
Inside the Taliban-approved Naji-e-Bashra madrasa – a girls-only religious school on the outskirts of Kabul – a teenage girl wearing a full face covering speaks nervously. Her classmate grabs her arm beneath the table, aware that any criticism of the ruling Taliban government is ill-advised…