From Reuters:
“U.N. Security Council stops
travel for two Taliban education ministers”
(An Afghan girl reads a book
inside her home in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 13, 2022.)
Two Afghan education ministers
are no longer allowed to travel abroad for any peace and stability talks after
the United Nations Security Council removed them from a sanctions exemption
list, diplomats said on Tuesday. The move - unanimously agreed by the Security
Council's Taliban sanctions committee - comes after the Taliban backtracked in
March on their pledge to open high schools for girls, saying they would remain
closed until a plan was drawn up in accordance with Islamic law for them to
reopen. Dozens of Taliban members have long been subjected to targeted U.N.
sanctions - a travel ban, asset freeze and arms embargo. But an exemption to
the travel ban was granted to some leaders to allow them to take part in peace
and stability talks.
The Security Council Taliban
sanctions committee on Monday agreed to extend the travel ban exemption for 13
Taliban leaders, but removed Deputy Minister of Education Said Ahmad Shahidkhel
and Minister of Higher Education Abdul Baqi Basir Awal Shah from the exemption
list, diplomats said. A spokesman for the Taliban administration's foreign
affairs ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The U.N.
Security Council last month called on Taliban authorities in Afghanistan to
"swiftly reverse" policies and practices that are restricting the
human rights and freedoms of Afghan women and girls.
^ The World (especially the
Muslims) needs to continue to put pressure on the Taliban to respect Human Rights
and give Minorities and Women equal rights. Until then the Taliban should
continue to be isolated and sanctioned. ^
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