Girls Education
Dec 6 2006, Pooja

A teacher was viciously murdered in Afghanistan for teaching, for teaching girls to be more precise.

When Afghanistan got rid of the Taliban government in March 2002, the heyday of schoolchildren came into prominence. Girls along with boys were seen...

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