Abdulhaq Haq Hammad, the Taliban-appointed publications department Director of the Ministry of Information and Culture, confirmed via Twitter on February 2, Ismail Masha’al, a former university lecturer was detained by Taliban fighters for provocative actions against the Taliban Government, reports Hasht-e Subh. He added that Ismail Masha’al had invited journalists and created a crowd on the street and recently quit teaching at the university to protest against the ban on university education for women in Afghanistan and started handing out books to young people on the streets.