Taliban’s new education minister says PhD, Master’s degrees ‘not valuable’
The Taliban announced a Government of the 33-member caregiver on Tuesday to govern Afghanistan. All the main positions were given in the cabinet to the key leaders of the Movement and the Haqqani network, the most violent faction of the Taliban known by the devastating attacks.
The Taliban regime, which revealed a caregiver government in Afghanistan, on Tuesday, is doing exactly what the people of the country and the world feared. Shortly after being appointed as a Minister of Education of Afghanistan, the Taliban leader, Sheikh Molvi Noorullah Munir, questioned the relevance of higher education.
In a video, widely circulated in social networks, the minister says: “No degree of PhD, Master is valuable today. You see that the mullahs and the Taliban who are in power, do not have a doctorate, MA or even a doctorate, MA or even a PhD Secondary title, but they are the greatest of all “.
This is the Higher Education Minister of the Taliban, he says there is no doctorate, the Master’s degree is valuable today. You see that the Mullahs & Taliban who are in power, have no doctorate, ma or even a high school title, but they are the greatest of all. pic.twitter.com/gr3uqocx1b.
– said Sulaiman Ashna (@ sashna111) September 7, 2021
MUNIR is one of the 33 members of the Government announced by the Taliban on Tuesday. While Mullah Mohammad Hassan has been appointed as the Prime Minister, “Sirajuddin Haqqani, especially appointed, specially appointed” Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Leader of the Felying Red Haqqani, has been appointed to the Minister of the Interior.
All the main positions were given in the cabinet to the key leaders of the Movement and the Haqqani network, the most violent faction of the Taliban known by the devastating attacks.
Mullah Yaqoob, the son of the Taliban Founder and the Late Supreme Leader Mullah Omar, was appointed Minister of Defense.
The co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar, who oversaw the signing of the United States Retirement Agreement in 2020, was appointed Deputy Prime Minister.
None of those designated by the government were women.
Hibatullah Akhundado, the Supreme Secret Leader of the Taliban, published a statement that says the new Government “would work with difficulty defending Islamic rules and Sharia law.”
However, analysts said that the new alignment indicated that, in fact, little had changed.
“The new Taliban, just like the ancient Taliban,” Tuiteó Bill Roggio, administering editor of the US Long War magazine. UU
“It’s not all inclusive, and that’s not surprising,” said Michael Kugelman, an expert in South Asia at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
The announcement of the cabinet arrived more than two weeks after the Taliban overthrew the civil government headed by Ashraf Ghani and power seized by force in Afghanistan.
