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Parastoo Hakim fights for young Afghan women to continue learning despite the closure of schools by the ruling Taliban. Testimony.
Relapse. On August 15, 2021, twenty years after being driven out, the Taliban entered Kabul and regained power. Since then, secondary schools for girls have closed, giving way to clandestine education.
Interview by Armin Arefi
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EBetween exile or confinement, Parastoo Hakim, 24, has chosen a third path: resistance. Faced with the Taliban’s decision to close access to colleges and high schools to young girls, this former civil servant of the Afghan presidency, who left her post overnight, opened a clandestine school to enable students aged 13 to 17 years to continue studying. She recounts her battle.
“ I already saw myself becoming Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United Nations, but the Taliban decided otherwise. By seizing power on August 15, 2021, Islamist fighters destroyed my dream of joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The entrance exam, which I was supposed to take in the fall of 2021, never took place. On the contrary, like…
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