A SENIOR Taliban figure has urged the group's head to do away with education prohibitions on Afghan women and girls, say-ing there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.

Sher Abbas Stanikzai, political deputy at the Foreign Ministry, made the remarks in a speech on Saturday in southeastern Khost province.

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