Hamid Karzai Welcomes Statement of Islamabad Conference on Girls' Education
In a note on Monday, January 14, Mr. Karzai welcomed the statement and once again called on the Taliban to open educational centers to girls.
Mr. Karzai has said that girls' education is an indisputable and unquestionable right, and has emphasized that preventing Afghan girls from being educated is "against the national interests and the supreme interests of the country and unjustifiable."
The two-day international conference on girls' education in Muslim societies, held in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, ended on Sunday with an emphasis on the importance of girls' education in Islamic countries.
The participants of the meeting said in a statement that women's education in Islamic countries is supported by religion, the constitution, and international law.
The Taliban were invited to this meeting, but they refused to attend.
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai welcomed a statement from the International Conference on Girls' Education in Islamic Countries held in Islamabad.
Farzana Ahmadi
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