Two women ministers from Qatar and Indonesia demand that Afghan girls be allowed back in schools, in meeting with a top member of Taliban government
The girls' education ban has been widely condemned after the Taliban, which retook Kabul in August, gave commitments that girls would be allowed to study.
Indonesia's Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and Qatar's Deputy Foreign Minister Lolwah Al Khater together held talks with the Taliban's acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Doha on Monday amid mounting concern over rights in the country, especially for women. Marsudi and Al Khater were the first foreign representatives to meet a Taliban leader since it sent girls home last Wednesday, a few hours after letting them back into secondary schools.comment, Marsudi said that she and Al Khater "discussed humanitarian issue and education for all in Afghanistan" with Muttaqi.
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