News Center- The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Muslim World League organized a summit on advancing girls’ education in Islamic countries in Islamabad on Sunday.

‘There is nothing Islamic about the Taliban's policies’

“Simply put, the Taliban in Afghanistan do not see women as human beings,” Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai said at the summit, stressing that there was “nothing Islamic” about the Taliban’s policies, which ban girls from going to school beyond the sixth grade and women from attending university.

“The Taliban are punishing women and girls who dare to break their obscure laws by beating them up, detaining them and harming them,” she told Muslim leaders, urging them to challenge the Taliban government in Afghanistan and its repressive policies for girls and women.

“In Afghanistan, an entire generation of girls will be robbed of its future. The Taliban government has again created a system of gender apartheid.”