Taliban announcement a clear sign girls will be allowed to return to school

Afghan girls attend classes in a primary school in Kabul, Afghanistan, in March 2021 (Rahmat Gul/AP)

Schools for all students will open this week, Afghanistan’s Taliban-run Education Ministry has announced in the clearest sign yet that girls will be allowed back in school.

Girls have been denied education beyond Year 7 since the Taliban swept back into power last August.