Date: 20/12/1403

Local sources in Badakhshan report that the Taliban’s Ministry of Higher Education has dismissed six professors from the Faculty of Islamic Studies at the province’s university.
Sources told 8AM Daily on Monday, 20th Hoot (Persian calendar), that the dismissed professors held advanced academic degrees and each had more than ten years of teaching experience at the university.

According to the sources, the professors dismissed by the Taliban are:
Sanatullah Joya,
Mohammad Anwar Zafari,
Head of the Department of Jurisprudence and Law,
Mohammad Rashid Rahimi,
Mohammad Qasim Rashidi,
Abdul Basir Azizi, and
Aminullah Halimi.

The reported dismissal of six experienced professors from the Faculty of Islamic Studies at the provincial university in Badakhshan Province by the Taliban reflects the continued politicization and ideological control of higher education. Removing senior academics with advanced degrees and long teaching records, absent any academic or procedural justification, undermines academic freedom and institutional integrity. This action signals the systematic exclusion of independent scholarly voices from universities and the use of employment sanctions to enforce conformity.