The Taliban's acting deputy foreign minister called on his senior leadership to open schools for Afghan girls, among the strongest public rebukes of a policy that has contributed to the international isolation of its rulers.

The Taliban's acting deputy foreign minister has urged senior leaders to reopen schools for Afghan girls, marking one of the strongest public critiques of a policy that has deepened the

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.

Taliban bans women from singing or reading out loud in public 00:54. A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying

The rare public rebuke from Sher Abbas Stanikzai, the Taliban deputy foreign minister, comes amid persistent international calls for Afghanistan’s rulers to permit girls’ education in secondary school

A senior Taliban government official has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls during a speech at a religious school in southeastern Khost province on Saturday, as reported by news agency The Associated Press (AP).