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       Afghan boys read the Koran in a madrasa, or religious school, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Kabul on April 18.

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       Afghan schools will open for boys beginning Saturday, the new Taliban ministry of education has said in a statement that gives no indication of when girls might be able to go back to their classes.

       More than a month after the movement seized the capital, Kabul, most educational institutions have remained closed as the Taliban have struggled to reopen the economy and restore normal life in the cities.

       At some of the schools that have managed to operate, girls up to the sixth grade have attended, and women students have gone to university classes. But high schools for girls have been closed.

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       Taliban officials have said they will not replicate the fundamentalist policies of the previous Taliban government, which banned girls’ education, and they have promised that girls will be able to study so long as they do so in segregated classrooms.

       While the Taliban did not order schools to close after their takeover, the movement has said the security situation meant that many activities for women and girls were not yet possible, and the latest statement did not mention girls at all.

       It said state and private schools at primary and secondary level as well as official madrasa religious schools would open on Saturday.

       “All teachers and male students should attend school,” the statement said.

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