Girls are also banned from attending secondary schools in most parts of the country.

Marwa was due to go to university in a few months, the first woman in her Afghan family to do so, but now she will see her brother go to university without her.

Women in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan are now banned from going to university to study.

Here, for the last one year, their freedom has been taken away continuously.

"If he had ordered the beheading of women, that too would have been better than this ban," Marwa told AFP at his home in Kabul.

He said, "If we are so unlucky, I wish we were never born. I feel sorry for my existence in the world. We are being treated worse than animals. Animals can go anywhere on their own, but We girls don't even have the right to step out of our homes."

Marwa, 19, recently passed an entrance exam to start a nursing degree at a medical university in the Afghan capital in March.

She was thrilled to join her brother Hamid on campus every day, but now their future hangs in the balance.

“I wanted my sister to pursue her dreams along with me in order to succeed and move forward,” said Hamid, 20, a business administration student at a higher education institute in Kabul. She studied till Class 12 despite many difficulties, But what shall we say now?"

The ban by the hardline Islamist government that seized power in August last year has sparked global outrage, including from Muslim nations.

He also considered it against Islam.

The Taliban's minister of higher education, Neda Mohammad Nadeem, claimed that female students ignored a strict dress code and were required to be accompanied by a male relative on campus.

But according to some Taliban officials, the reality is that the hardline clerics who advise the movement's supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, remain seriously skeptical about modern education for women.

Girls are also banned from attending secondary schools in most parts of the country.

In recent months women have been gradually pushed out of public life, fired from government jobs or paid a fraction of their former wages to stay at home.

They have also been barred from traveling without a male relative.

Also, they have to cover themselves completely in public.

Women are prohibited from going to parks, fairs, gyms and public baths.

Marwa and Hamid come from a poor family, but their parents supported them for higher education.

With dreams of becoming a nurse, Marwa plans to visit remote areas of Afghanistan where women are denied access to healthcare.

She said, "I wanted to go to remote areas and serve women, so that mothers don't die while giving birth."

Instead, she will now stay at home to educate her six younger siblings while her father, the family's sole breadwinner, earns money as a vegetable vendor.

Minister Nadeem insisted that the girl students behaved in a manner that insulted Islamic principles and Afghan culture.

She said in a TV interview, "They were dressed as if they were going to a wedding. Even the girls who were coming from home to the universities were not following the hijab instructions."

But Hamid strongly rejected the justification for the ban.

He said, "When universities opened under the Taliban, separate days were set for boys and girls. Girls were not allowed to enter unless they wore the niqab. Then they (the Taliban) How can you tell she was without hijab?"

After the Taliban seized power, universities were forced to implement new rules, including separate classrooms and entrances for boys and girls, while women were allowed to be taught only by female professors or older men. was allowed.

Marwa's mother, holding her newborn child in her arms, said she felt history repeating itself.

She was forced to give up her studies two decades ago during the first Taliban regime between 1996 and 2001.

Zainab, 40, said, "I am happy that my son can fulfill his dreams, but I am also sad that my daughter is not able to do the same. If my daughter does not do it, then her The future will be as miserable as mine."

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