Time For Madrassas & Universities To Unite In Afghanistan, Says Sirajuddin Haqqani

Sirajuddin Haqqani, Taliban’s Minister of Interior, has said that for a long time, there have been attempts that religious seminaries confront with universities in Afghanistan.

Haqqani added that the group will not allow any confrontation between the two educational institutions.

According to Haqqani, after 45 years, now there is an opportunity for solidarity and unity between madrassas, schools, and universities in Afghanistan.

Neda Mohammad Nadeem, the Taliban’s Minister of Higher Education, also asked university lecturers and teachers to compete in innovation and scientific research.

While the two senior Taliban officials talk about university education, the group has transformed schools and educational centers in different provinces of Afghanistan into madrassas and several teachers have been fired and mullahs or people sympathetic to the Taliban have been appointed instead of them.

The Haqqani Network changed the famous “Habibia” school in Khost province, which had 7,000 students, into “Al-Jihad Madrassa”.

Recently, the Taliban has removed teacher training units from the structure of Afghanistan’s Ministry of Education, which has caused unemployment of more than 4,000 employees, of these educational units in Afghanistan.