A ministry officer, when contacted, said the news was fake.

This comes after a public backlash against the ministry for hosting officials from the Taliban-led Afghan government earlier this month.

In response to the backlash, education minister Fadhlina Sidek said her ministry had shared insights on education with officials from the Afghan education ministry.

Afghanistan is the only country in the world that does not allow girls and women to attend secondary schools and universities.

The Taliban administration has imposed restrictions on women that the United Nations has described as “gender apartheid”.

In March last year, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Malaysia was ready to cooperate and improve ties with the Afghanistan government under Taliban rule.

He said however that Malaysia stood firm on the issue of women’s education and believed they should not be denied this right.