The deputy head of the Islamic Emirate’s intelligence, Rahmatullah Najib, said that modern education is a need for the society in addition to religious clerics.

Speaking at the graduation ceremony of hundreds of reciters of Quran from various madrasas, Najib said that modern education should be improved in a bid to pave the ground for the country’s development.

“In a bid to ensure improvement of Afghanistan and provide prosperity for the Afghans, we need to focus on this [modern] education,” he said.

Meanwhile, head of the appellate court, Mohammad Sharif Rahmani, said that Hijab is not observed in many Islamic countries and that the Islamic scholars are silent in this regard. He said that the observation of Hijab is obligatory in Afghanistan.

“The governments in all Islamic countries are making statements about the issue of Hijab but the clerics are not telling them that Hijab is obligatory. Hijab should be obligatory in every Islamic country,” he said.

He also said that the Hanafi sect of Islam is enforced in Afghanistan and that the security organizations should take serious actions against the opposition of this sect.

The organizers of the ceremony said that nearly 400 reciters of the Quran graduated from Jama-e- Abdullah Ibne Mubarak religious seminary.

“Last year, 130 graduates graduated from here and this year 280 people of the senior level and 160 people from the junior level graduated,” said Homad, head of the seminary.

This comes as the Islamic Emirate’s leader, Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada, also earlier instructed all officials of the Islamic Emirate to not take any action which opposes the Islamic Sharia.