{"id":47440,"date":"2022-08-14T18:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/14\/hypocrisy-or-a-reason-for-hope-the-taliban-who-send-their-girls-to-school"},"modified":"2022-08-14T18:00:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T09:00:05","slug":"hypocrisy-or-a-reason-for-hope-the-taliban-who-send-their-girls-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47440","title":{"rendered":"Hypocrisy or a reason for hope? The Taliban who send their girls to school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghan rulers\u2019 ban on female schooling has provoked global anger, but opposition is also growing from within<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban official\u2019s wife apologised for keeping her visit brief. She needed to get her teenage girls ready to fly to Doha, the Qatari capital, where they would shortly be starting a new term, she explained to her host earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>In Kabul, and across much of Afghanistan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/17\/taliban-ban-girls-from-secondary-education-in-afghanistan\" title=\"\">girls have not been legally able to attend high school<\/a> for nearly a year, because of a Taliban ban. Officials insist the ruling is only temporary, but have set no conditions or timeline for lifting it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/14\/hypocrisy-or-a-reason-for-hope-the-taliban-who-send-their-girls-to-school\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghan rulers\u2019 ban on female schooling has provoked global anger, but opposition is also growing from withinThe Taliban official\u2019s wife apologised for keeping her visit brief. She needed to get her teenage girls ready to fly to Doha, the Qatari cap&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":523,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,615,44,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-education","category-taliban","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47441,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47440\/revisions\/47441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}