Male students in Nangarhar medical university walked out of classes in protest of Taliban’s ban on female university students. Tens of others protested in front of the university against this decision. #Afghanistan

Dear Taliban, how would you expect the women in your families -- mothers, wives, daughters -- to get medical care from women, as opposed to unrelated men, if you ban women from medical schools?

Any sustainable social change must come from Afghan citizens. One hopes this is a spark for self-expression on behalf of more reasonable governance in the interests of Afghanistan and current life on the planet instead of repression in the illusory promise of heaven.

@rulajebreal Brave souls!

history will remember this act of our boys for ever. I am proud of you guys.

Solidarity and courage in practice.

Protest of all students is the best answer to this mediaval ban!

@gcinkara So sad seeing this unfolding. I earlier assigned Malala Yousafzai’s “we are displaced” for my students. We are all watching this crying as it unfolds.

Because of the way Twitter algorithms herd users into silos, I guess few Western viewers would be aware there's a very active Taliban Twitter allowed on here, where the decision to bar women medical & other university students is praised to the rafters

Well done male students for sticking up for your female would be colleagues