US special representative for Afghanistan Thomas West and former Afghan President Hamid Karzai discussed people’s desire for the reopening of secondary schools for Afghan girls.
Thomas West took to his Twitter and wrote that he spoke with Hamid Karzai on Sunday, April 3, and discussed girls’ education and the need for a national consultative process in Afghanistan.
“A pleasure to speak yesterday with @KarzaiH We exchanged views re: the Afghan people’s desire to see girls return to secondary school soonest, and the need for a nat’l consultative process to determine country’s future.” Reads the Twitter post.
Earlier, Thomas West refused to carry out a meeting with the Taliban delegation in Doha in reaction to the closure of schools for girls upper than grade 6th.
The announcement by the interim government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan shocked over one million schoolgirls in Afghanistan and the international community asked the IEA to reverse the decision.
