It has now been one week since the Taliban rescinded its promise to finally reopen secondary schools for teenage girls in Afghanistan and there are no signs their Islamic Emirate is any closer to living up to its months-long promise of allowing all Afghans to resume their education. The response to the group’s March 23 backpedalling was swift. The governments of Qatar, Turkey and global bodies like the European Union and the United Nations Security Council were quick to express their dismay at the Taliban’s sudden reversal on a pledge they themselves had been touting in the media and during me…

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