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<\/p>\nThe Taliban has replaced Afghanistan’s women’s ministry with an all-male “vice and virtue ministry”.<\/p>\n
The new ministry is tasked with enforcing the group’s extreme interpretation of Islam.<\/p>\n
Officials at the ministry told the Associated Press they had not been informed whether a new women’s ministry is being planned.<\/p>\n
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It comes as schools across Afghanistan<\/strong> reopened for boys from Saturday, effectively barring girls from secondary education despite the group’s previous commitment<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The new Taliban<\/strong> ministry of education’s announcement did not mention when girls may be able to return to classes, even in gender-segregated settings.<\/p>\n It said state and private schools at primary and secondary level, as well as official madrasa religious schools, will open from Saturday.<\/p>\n “All teachers and male students should attend school,” the statement said.<\/p>\n It comes after staff from the World Bank’s $100m (£72m) Women’s Economic Empowerment and Rural Development Programme were escorted off the grounds of the old ministry by the Taliban in Kabul.<\/p>\n Sharif Akhtar, a programme member who was escorted out with his staff, said he could not say how or if the programme could continue.<\/p>\n Most educational institutions remain closed across Afghanistan, more than a month after the Taliban seized Kabul.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/21\/08\/768x432\/skynews-afghan-girls-afghanistan_5488170.jpg\")
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