Karzai, Who Ousted Taliban, Now Pleads With Them to Reopen Schools

Afghanistan's girls are barred from secondary education under Taliban rule, denying millions access to schooling and future opportunities.

In the years since the Taliban's return to Kabul in 2021, Hamid Karzai — the man who spent thirteen years constructing Afghanistan's post-Taliban state — has made the quiet, consequential choice to remain. He did not flee, as many of his contemporaries did, but instead stayed to inhabit the strange position of a former architect living inside the structure that replaced his own. From that unlikely perch, he has turned his remaining moral authority toward a single cause: the right of Afghan girls to attend school — a right the Taliban has systematically extinguished. His presence in Kabul is it

Karzai, Who Ousted Taliban, Now Pleads With Them to Reopen Schools

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