IRIN Asia – Monday 22 Sept, 2008
Over 300,000 students have been denied education in 2008 due to attacks on schools and insecurity, according to MoE. Girl-children are suffering under even more restrictions. IRIN news image.
KANDAHAR, 22 September 2008 (IRIN) – Zulaikha, 14, was the top student in her class last year but has been unable to attend school this year because of increased attacks on schools, rampant insecurity and threats to students and their families.
“I wanted to become a doctor and treat poor and ill people,” she told IRIN at her home in the outskirts of Kandahar city in southern Afghanistan.
Taliban insurgents oppose female education and work and have frequently torched schools, killed school employees and circulated letters warning parents not to send their children, particularly girls, to school. . .
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