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Taliban officials have reportedly banned girls over 10 years of age from attending school classes in some provinces of Afghanistan in its latest set of restrictions against female education. According to �鶹�� Persian, Taliban officials from the Ministry of Education told school principals in Ghazni province that "any girl over 10 years of age is not allowed to study in primary schools." The directive has sparked widespread concerns over women's rights and access to education in the country. Shukria Barakzai is a former member of Afghanistan’s parliament. She told Newsday that girls under the age of 10 are also impacted: “If physically they look a bit more…bigger, they are not allowed to go.” (Picture: Shows young females students during a class lesson at a school in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2008. Credit: Bhasker Solanki / �鶹��.)