“I am not afraid right now, but I am concerned about my future.'
Salgy Baran, 18, who received the highest the highest score in the entire country on Afghanistan's university entrance exams this year, poses for photograph at her home in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. Baran wants to stay in the country and become a doctor. But as with so many other Afghans, those plans were thrown into doubt when the Taliban rolled into the capital of Kabul earlier this month.
Taliban leaders say women and girls will be able to attend school and work in accordance with Islamic law — without providing specifics — even as other prominent members of the militant group have sneered at the idea of coed classrooms and hinted at more reactionary measures. This year's exams — Afghanistan's version of the SAT — were held before the takeover. She got the highest score of anyone in the country, out of about 174,000 boys and girls, according to the National Examination Authority. That secured her a spot at the Kabul University of Medical Sciences, the country's top school of medicine.An entire generation of Afghan women have benefited from the Western-backed order established after the 2001 U.S.-led invasion drove the Taliban from power.
Progress since 2001 has been incremental and largely confined to urban areas. The U.N. children's agency estimates that 3.7 million Afghan children are out of school, 60% of them girls, and 17% of girls are forced into marriage before their 15th birthday.
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