New Delhi: The acting high education minister of the Taliban Abdul Baqi Haqqani said that the graduates from the past 20 years are of no use, reported the Khaama Press Agency.
Abdul Baqi Haqqani made the statements in a meeting with the university lecturers in Kabul.
Haqqani was talking about the graduates who have studied during the non-Taliban era when they were fighting the US-backed governments of Hamid Karzai and Ashraf Ghani. He further said that they must hire teachers who instil in students and incoming generations the 'values that are of use in the country and Afghanistan can utilize their talents in the future'.
However, for Afghanistan, the last two decades is considered to be one of the most important and rich eras when it comes to the level of education in the country.
Haqqani has made similar controversial comments earlier as well, after the Taliban came into power, he said that the Master’s and PhD holders of modern studies are less valuable than those who have studied in madrasas and have religious studies in Afghanistan.
The Taliban also prohibited girls from attending secondary schools. Teenage Afghan girls weren’t allowed to return to school as classrooms across the country reopened for the first time in September since the Taliban took power in August. Now the Taliban has allowed girls up to sixth grade to attend school, but they will be taught in separate classrooms from boys.
Some private universities have also been allowed to open classrooms for girls, however, most of the students are staying home out of fear. Afghanistan’s universities are regulated by a separate ministry from the ministry of education.