On Wednesday, officials from the Ministry of Education, during a program outlining their one-year achievements, said that more than 21,200 Islamic education centers have been established across the country over the past year.

They added that during this period, over 617,000 textbooks were distributed to Islamic education centers throughout the country.

According to the officials, more than 1.4 million new students were enrolled during this period, and over 16.18 million textbooks for grades one to twelve were printed and distributed to various provinces.

Kiramatullah Akundzada, the Deputy Minister of Education for Islamic Affairs, said during the program: "A total of 21,257 Islamic education centers have been established nationwide, including 19,669 madrasas, 1,277 Holy Quraan memorization centers (Darul Hifaz), 115 higher education institutes (Darul Uloom), and 39 orphanages (Darul Ayatam)."

The Ministry also highlighted other achievements over the past year, such as providing literacy services to more than 160,000 people, revising the curriculum for grades one to six, hiring 50,000 teachers and support staff for Islamic education centers, conducting capacity-building programs for over 248,000 ministry employees and teachers, printing more than 294,000 literacy books, and administering competency exams to 33,900 religious scholars.

According to the officials, in the past year, a debt of 1.5 billion Afghan, as well as guarantees and securities of the ministry, were verified and reported to the Ministry of Finance.

The total number of students in public and private schools has exceeded 10.91 million.

Kiramatullah Akundzada added: "The total number of students in public and private schools has reached 10,914,038."

More than three years have passed since the closure of girls' schools above the sixth grade. However, in this program, the Ministry of Education officials said that the reopening of girls' schools remains unresolved and is still pending further orders.