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Taliban To Ban Mixed Sex Education

Lessons to be segregated

The Taliban says women can continue to study at Afghan universities - but lessons will be gender segregated.

Video footage shows men and women separated by a curtain down the middle of a room.

The plans were outlined by the fundamentalist group's higher education minister, Abdul Baqi Haqqani.

He confirmed the ban on mixed-sex education, saying “We have no problems in ending the mixed-education system. The people are Muslims and they will accept it”.

The group have promised to preserve female education * women's rights, but will do so according to Islamic law.

The new Afghan government is all male.

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