New Delhi: Taliban’s Education Authority issued a document on Saturday prior to classes resuming today, ordered women to wear an abaya robe and niqab and that class must be segregated by sex or at least divided by a curtain.

Private universities resumed functioning in war torn Afghanistan on Monday with the Taliban which has promised a more moderate government, including assurances of human rights, particularly those concerning women and children allowing female students to attend classes. Talibans imposed restrictions on the clothes they may wear, where and how they are seated in class, who can teach them, and even the length of their classes.

The education authority in its document ordered that female students should only be taught by other women. If this is not possible then old men of good character can fill in. Universities are required to recruit female teachers for female students based on their facilities.

Among other decrees from the Taliban are that men and women must use separate entrances and exits, and female students must leave five minutes earlier to stop men and women from mixing. Female students must stay in waiting rooms till their male students have left the building.