ISLAMABAD -- Defending the Taliban government's decision to end mixed-sex classes in Afghanistan, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, the minister for higher education, told Nikkei Asia that females will be allowed to resume their education after a new system to separate males and females is introduced.
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Afghanistan's Taliban government is instituting a new education system that will separate male and female students. © Reuters
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