By Asmatullah Yaqhubi
Some of the Non-government organisations (NGOs) have recently raised their concern regarding girls` education in Afghanistan.
According to these organisations despite the rise in the number of girls` enrolment in schools which has gone up from 5.000 in 2001 to 2.4 million in 2011 there are still lack of trained teachers and equipment which prevents girls improvement in education.
The statement by NGOs also claim that the plan of foreign countries to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan is another factors which will have a huge impact on girls education as it will increase insecurity and prevent girls from going to school.
But the problem of girls education is Afghanistan is an old story and it is much bigger and wider then the NGOs concern. There are for more complicated reasons which girls cannot improve in education field. The first reason is a negative culture in Afghanistan which girls have been treated differently from boys at home. Boys are still superior then girls in every aspect of life including education. There are still too many families that believe their daughters shouldn’t go to school for cultural and religious reason.
Taliban is still in power in some areas and in all of these areas there is no school for boys let alone girls. Neeti Bhargava, Oxfam Country Programme manager in Afghanistan has rightly stated that Girls in Afghanistan are hungry for education. This is absolutely true but lack of strong governments in Afghanistan throughout the history left girls in much lower positions in society. Despite the huge support, from international community to the current government in Afghanistan, the government is not strong enough to provide security and other facilities for girls to go to school and sadly the government does not consider this problem as a major issue.
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