A Taliban official has admitted that his daughters go to high school, regardless of a ban on Afghan ladies getting an schooling within the nation.

On Tuesday, Piers Morgan confronted Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen on Piers Morgan Uncensored and requested whether or not his daughters have been allowed to get an schooling in a clip posted to Twitter.

"In fact, sure. They're observing hijab, and so which means we now have not denied for our individuals," Shaheen mentioned in a tense alternate the place the 2 went back-and-forth in regards to the topic.

Morgan hit again, "So your daughters get an schooling as a result of they do what you inform them," earlier than promptly ending the interview.

The Taliban's return to energy in Afghanistan final yr raised considerations in regards to the rights of ladies and ladies within the nation, who had made advances because the finish of the group's first rule, after they had been subjected to harsh legal guidelines and banned from receiving an schooling. Within the months following the Taliban's return, ladies haven't been allowed to attend college.

Taliban's Suhail Shaheen daughters go to school
A Taliban official has admitted that his daughters go to high school, regardless of a ban on Afghan ladies getting an schooling. Above, Afghan girls and ladies show in help of excessive faculties reopening for women on March 26 in Kabul, Afghanistan.AHMAD SAHEL ARMAN/AFP by way of Getty Photographs

Social media customers responded to the clip posted Tuesday, calling out Shaheen for hypocrisy.

"This man's daughters observe hijab and get an schooling. This man's one daughter performs on the Qatari soccer workforce. This man's one daughter has a Qatari boyfriend. Afghan ladies observe the hijab, however are disadvantaged of an schooling previous the sixth grade and so they can't play sports activities," wrote Twitter person @Punk319 in response to the clip.

Afghan faculties nonetheless haven't reopened to ladies regardless of earlier guarantees from the Taliban that they might be capable to resume their schooling—almost 9 months after the group took energy.

Faculties had been initially set to reopen in March, however the Taliban introduced the day they had been alleged to open that they might stay shut down as a result of the group had not but decided the costume code college students can be required to put on. The choice got here as some ladies had already returned to class.

The Taliban beforehand deliberate to permit ladies to return with some restrictions, together with that they needed to be separated from male college students and be taught by a feminine trainer.

Different girls's rights have additionally been focused by the Taliban in current months. In December, the group introduced that Afghan girls might not journey greater than 45 miles with out the presence of a "shut male family member."

Over the weekend, it was introduced that Afghan girls can be required to cowl themselves from head to toe whereas in public in a decree that additionally mentioned girls ought to depart the house solely when mandatory, the Related Press reported.