{"id":37070,"date":"2025-06-26T13:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/en\/?p=37070"},"modified":"2025-06-26T13:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:51:22","slug":"how-afghanistans-education-ban-has-shattered-the-lives-of-rural-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/en\/how-afghanistans-education-ban-has-shattered-the-lives-of-rural-women\/","title":{"rendered":"How Afghanistan\u2019s education ban has shattered the lives of rural women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Nosha Asiyan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Lina* became one of the few girls from her district in rural Afghanistan to win a place at university, she hoped she could help pull her family out of poverty. The sacrifices they made to support her \u2013 selling livestock to fund her studies \u2013 made her all the more determined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Lina never got to complete her economics degree. As she travelled to Kabul from the family home in Badakhshan province in the mountains of northeast Afghanistan in 2022 with her brother to start her final semester at the university, the Taliban issued a decree banning women from formal studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now 24, she is back on the family farm in Badakhshan\u2019s Zebak region, near the border with Pakistan. She spends her days toiling on the farm, a mix of crops and livestock that provides the 13-member household with a meagre livelihood. Her hands are roughened by hard labour and her nearly three years at university are a distant memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI told him, \u2018This time, when I return to Zebak, it will be with my degree in hand.\u2019 But instead, I came back with tearful eyes and a heart full of pain,\u201d says Lina as she recalls the day her hopes of a different life were cut short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every day, she remembers how close she came to completing her university education. But the memories are painful ones, and talking about those days is hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI dreamed of finishing my studies, getting a good job and moving my family to [the provincial capital] Faizabad or Kabul to save them from this hardship and the exhaustion of rural life,\u201d Lina told Rukhshana Media as she carved rows in the dry soil to plant potatoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c[I thought] if I ever came back to the village, it would only be for a visit or a vacation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf the Taliban had allowed it, I could be supporting my family now. Instead, I have become a burden to them, living each day with a heavy heart,\u201d she says, wiping tears from her eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lina doesn\u2019t complain about the physical demands of her work. It provides a welcome distraction from her sadness at the loss of a life she once dreamed of \u2013 dreams cut short by the Taliban\u2019s return to power in 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since then, Afghanistan\u2019s new rulers have introduced a slew of draconian restrictions on women, barring them from all education beyond the primary level and from most forms of work outside the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">******************************************************************<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were no female students at Afghanistan\u2019s public universities under the previous Taliban regime. But over the two decades that followed their ousting in 2001, the proportion of women swelled to between 35% and 45% according to statistics from the Ministry of Higher Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the Taliban\u2019s return to power in 2021, they have banned both higher education and most forms of employment for women, effectively confining them to the home in urban areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in rural parts of the country like Zebak, many women still work on the land, farming and taking care of livestock \u2013 tough physical labour that has not changed in centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a life that Rahil, 20, had hoped to avoid when she won a place to study literature and humanities at Mazar-i-Sharif University in 2022. She dreamed of becoming a teacher, but did not even get to start her studies before the Taliban barred women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, shel lives with her parents in a village in Zebak, where she spends half her day working in the fields and the other half in the kitchen, baking bread and making <em>tapak<\/em>, the bricks from animal dung that are burned as fuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like Lina, she remembers vividly the moment that her hopes of a different life were dashed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rahil said goodbye to her parents, who had borrowed money for her travel and schooling, and headed to Faizabad where she planned to stay the night at a relative\u2019s house to break the journey. That night, she learned of the ban on the television news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI almost went crazy,\u201d she says. \u201cI felt like everyone was laughing at me, mocking me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The very next day, she returned to her village, she says, recalling how she spent that entire night crying in her mother\u2019s arms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The older woman is tall and strong, but describes her life as full of hardship and says she hoped for a better future for her only daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll the work in the winter pastures falls on the women\u2019s shoulders,\u201d she says. \u201cWe work at home, cooking and baking bread, and we work in the fields, digging and tilling the soil. Looking after the animals, making <em>tapak<\/em>\u2026 it all falls on the women.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">****************************************************<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like Rahil and Lina, Tahira*, 21, carries a heavy sorrow in her heart. Before the ban on women\u2019s education, she was a nursing student in Faizabad. Now, unable to study or work, she faces being forced by her father into a&nbsp; marriage she does not want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tahira\u2019s story is far from unique in her village, where she says some girls were married at 15 or 16 after the education ban was introduced and their secondary schools closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI have completely lost hope in life. I had completed three semesters, halfway through my studies, and was supposed to graduate in about a year and a half, but it didn\u2019t happen,\u201d says Tahira, who has moved back to her family\u2019s village home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile I was in Faizabad, life was easier. I wasn\u2019t even engaged. In the city, no one cares if someone isn\u2019t married by 30, but here, if you\u2019re 18 or 19 and still single, you\u2019re quickly labeled as an old maid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She points sadly to the nursing textbooks and notebooks tucked away in the corner of the chest that contains her wedding clothes and says she may never be able to go back to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All three women came close to fulfilling their dreams of study and a career, only to have those opportunities cruelly snatched away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was just one step away,\u201d says Lina sadly. \u201cJust one year left until graduation. I studied for three years, worked hard, endured poverty, low resources, hunger, and thirst, but it was all in vain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note*: <em>Names have been changed to protect identities.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Lina* became one of the few girls from her district in rural Afghanistan to win a place at university, she hoped she could help pull her family out of poverty. 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