Girl's Schools in northern provinces, Sir-e-pul and Jawzjan, are being targeted with poison attacks for the last couple of weeks. According to media reports on Monday July 02, nearly 260 schoolgirls were poisoned in Shiberghan city, the capital of northern Jawzjan and on Saturday June 30, 2012, around 53 schoolgirls were poisoned in northern Sar-e-Pul province, Chahar Bagh Secondary School.

"The students are between 7-18 years old and all the victims are shifted to hospital for treatment," an official said. Over the past two months, about 1,500 students, most of them females, were poisoned in Kabul, Takhar, Khost, Bamyan, Balkh and Sar-i-Pul provinces. Taliban are being suspected for such inhuman acts, but they have refused to claim responsibilities of the recent attacks on schools girls.

Afghan women have long suffered discriminations and they have always been underestimated. Women are considered to be great contributors to social, educational and political developments; as it is mentioned in Holy Quran, "Getting education is compulsory for both male and female."

But in our Muslim dominated society females are being poisoned so as to make them tired of school and education. The female literacy rate in Afghanistan does not cross 14 percent; this achievement throughout the last decade is no great deal.

Different organizations and institutions such as Ministry of Women Affairs, Independent Human Rights Commissions have been formed to protect the women rights in Afghanistan, but still they have not been able to cope the violence against women. Recently poisoning school girls has changed to daily violence practices against women.

Along all the achievements such as constructions projects, rational opportunities of women access to education and justice that Afghan government has consecutively been reporting to the nation via media. Afghan women are still one of the most vulnerable segments of the society.

Still around 80 percent of the women in Afghanistan do not have access to education and social rights. Still there are families whose daughters are not allowed to get higher education. There are still families where women should be covered in Burqas and are not allowed to leave the house without escorted by man.