"Taliban's policy of extreme discrimination against women...You can't legalize it."

It has been argued that the Taliban government should not legalize its extreme women's discrimination policies, such as restricting women's education.

The Associated Press said the Taliban government did not attend the international conference on Muslim women's education in Islamabad, Pakistan, and Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani women's education activist and Nobel peace laureate, made the claim.

More than 150 ambassadors and ministers from 44 Muslim and pro-Muslim countries and representatives of international organizations such as the United Nations Children's Fund also attended the international conference.

Yousafzai said in a speech on Wednesday local time that the Taliban have implemented an "extreme policy of discrimination against women" in Afghanistan, restricting, beating, locking up and punishing the education of women and girls.

Therefore, they should not legalize these governments and urged Islamic leaders to speak out to condemn the Taliban government's restrictions on women's education.

Yousafzai was shot by the militant group the Taliban (TTP) in Pakistan in 2012 while campaigning for women's education in northwestern Pakistan as a teenager.

After retaking control of Afghanistan after the withdrawal of U.S. forces in August 2021, the Taliban have taken a series of measures that violate women's rights, including banning girls from entering middle schools and restricting employment, saying they were implementing Sharia, an Islamic law.

Since August, it has been under intense criticism from the international community for enacting a moral law that suppresses women's human rights.