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Afghanistan’s main universities reopened Saturday six months after the Taliban returned to power, but only a trickle of women returned to now-segregated classes. Most secondary schools for girls and all public universities were shuttered following the Taliban’s 15 August takeover, sparking fears women would be barred from education- as happened during the first rule of the hardline Islamists, from 1996-2001. The Taliban insist they will allow girls and women to be educated this time around- but only in segregated classes and according to an Islamic curriculum. Some public tertiary institutions…