Taliban elite educate their daughters abroad while millions of girls in Afghanistan being banned from classrooms and face widespread starvation

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Taliban officials sent their daughters to foreign schools even though the regime did not allow many secondary female students in the classroom, according to a report.

Senior officials sent their children to schools and universities, including in Qatar, Southwest Asia, while millions of female secondary school students in Afghanistan have lost education since the Taliban seized power in August.

Many Qatar-based Taliban leaders have chosen to send their sons and daughters to school, with the majority in Doha enroll their daughter at school, according to a report by Afghan analyst network.

Millions of female students still cannot go to school in Afghanistan, because the Taliban government has so far only reopened high school boys and elementary schools for all students.

But the Taliban has promised that all women and girls can access schools at all levels when the school left throughout the country is reversed in March.

Meanwhile, half of the Afghan population was said to face hunger in the coming months in the midst of the humanitarian crisis in the country.

The report, conducted by the non-profit policy research group, interviewed 30 people, including nine senior Taliban officials and the Taliban sympathizers.

A Taliban official based in Qatar, who is a member of the Taliban negotiating team, said his two daughters studied at Qatar State School, with one completing his education in 2020.

He said: “We live for three years not too disturbed by education, but because everyone in the neighborhood goes to school, our children demand that they go to school too. So, in the fourth year, I have to send three sons and Two daughters to school. ‘

Other Taliban officials chose to send their children to private schools run by Pakistan, based in Qatar, who participated in the Pakistani curriculum but taught in English, according to the report.

Other Qatar-based Taliban officials told Aan: ‘Taliban members and their families who live here [in Qatar] have strong demands for modern education and no one oppose it for boys or girls – of all ages.’

A daughter of a minister of Taliban at this time, who previously became a member of Shura’s leadership in Quetta, said she was studying medicine at Qatar University.