The United Nations have urged the Taliban regime to reopen high schools for girls across Afghanistan.

The head of United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Markus Potzel in a statement said ban is profoundly damaging to a generation of girls and to the future of Afghanistan itself.

He further said ban has no parallel in the world.

Weeks after the Taliban seized power in August last year, it reopened high schools for boys on September 18, 2021, but banned secondary schoolgirls from attending classes.

Months later on March 23, the education ministry opened secondary schools for girls, but within hours the Taliban leadership ordered classes to be shut again.