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Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Taliban\u2019s deputy foreign minister, left for UAE after criticising ban on secondary school and higher education for girls<\/p>\n

A senior Taliban minister who expressed support for reversing the ban on girls\u2019 education in Afghanistan appears to have been forced to flee the country.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a graduation ceremony<\/a> in Khost province, near the Afghan-Pakistani border, on 20 January, Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, the Taliban\u2019s deputy foreign minister, criticised<\/a> the government\u2019s ban on girls attending secondary schools and higher education.<\/p>\n

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Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Taliban\u2019s deputy foreign minister, left for UAE after criticising ban on secondary school and higher education for girlsA senior Taliban minister who expressed support for reversing the ban on girls\u2019 education in Afghanistan a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4602,"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":[46,59,860,53,79,61,44,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-global-education","category-human-rights","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women","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\/69280","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\/4602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69281,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69280\/revisions\/69281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}