U.N. Security Council stops travel for two Taliban education ministers

FILE PHOTO - An Afghan girl reads a book inside her home in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 13, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Two Afghan education ministers are no longer allowed to travel abroad for any peace and stability talks after the United Nations Security Council removed them from a sanctions exemption list, diplomats said on Tuesday.

The move - unanimously agreed by the Security Council's Taliban sanctions committee - comes after the Taliban backtracked in March on their pledge to open high schools for girls, saying they would remain closed until a plan was drawn up in accordance with Islamic law for them to reopen.