Afghan women can study but must wear Islamic dress in gender-segregated classes

Women stand inside an auditorium at Kabul University’s education centre during a demonstration (Felipe Diana/AP)

Women in Afghanistan can continue to study in universities, including at post-graduate levels, but classrooms will be gender-segregated and Islamic dress is compulsory, the higher education minister in the new Taliban government said.

The minister, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, laid out the new policies at a news conference on Sunday, several days after Afghanistan’s new rulers formed an all-male government.