![]() ![]() Rob Welham/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty The Afghan Taliban's supreme leader Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada is seen in a 2021 file photo. ![]() Paying "special attention to the implementation of Sharia, all officials will give me an account of how much Sharia has been implemented in the one year of our government, and fully implement my six-point edict on women's rights," he said in a statement. On Monday, Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada ordered his intelligence officials to fully implement an edict he issued earlier this year relating to women. "Then I chose literature, only because my family invested in my education over the past 12 years, and I could not let them down." "I was so hopeless that at one time, I started crying and decided to leave my paper for them to decide which field I should study," she told CBS News in a telephone interview from her home in eastern Afghanistan. Women brave "brutal" Taliban response to protest.Meena, one of the high school graduates who took recent college entrance exams, wanted to study economics, but said she wasn't allowed to choose the topic and was left with literature as her only option. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have blocked young women from taking college entrance exams for a wide range of subjects, with one student saying the Islamic extremist group has deemed many topics "too difficult for women to handle." Several female students told CBS News that they and their peers were not allowed to take exams for university majors including engineering, economics, veterinary medicine, agriculture, geology, and journalism. ![]()
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