Talking with Deutsche Welle (DW), German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that she wished that a different outcome had befallen Afghanistan, calling the current situation "very regrettable."

Angela Merkel further said that despite the best intensions, an order was not created in Afghanistan where girls can go to school, and women can pursue their dreams in a peaceful situation.

“I want to tell the people of Afghanistan that we are of course very sad about the fact that we simply did not manage to achieve what we wanted to do, namely find a self-sustaining political order in Afghanistan, one in which girls can go to school, women can fulfil their wishes, and with lasting peace,” Merkel said.

She added: “The blame for this lies not with Germany alone. The Afghans, for their part, did not get it done either. It is simply very regrettable.”

Referring to the evacuation process, the chancellor said that her country evacuated a large amount of local staff from Afghanistan. The Germany also helped many Afghans who did not directly work with Germany but who were active advocates of freedom and democracy in Afghanistan.

At the same time, Human rights Watch reported that a lack of access to education and rising poverty will increase child marriage across the country.

“Access to education is another issue. As you know, the vast majority of girls' secondary schools are still closed, and even primary schools that are open seem very low attended by girls and by boys as well--so a huge proportion of the children in Afghanistan are being denied the right to education at the moment. And this leads to another problem which is child marriage. We know that the combination of poverty and lack of access to education is driving up child marriage and we have also seen the incredibly disturbing reports about families selling their children--almost always girls--to pay for food, said Heather Barr at Human Rights Watch.

On Monday, however, officials in Herat said that now girls in grades 7 to 12 can again attend school, adding 300,000 students to the current school-going population in the western province.