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Fatima Walid Qassem

Uzma Ahmed Ali stands in the courtyard of the former girls' school, which shut down several years ago. She now travels an hour to study – something few girls in her village are able to do.

There isn’t really any mystery to why one Pakistani village lost its girls school. It’s about money

Development & Education

No one in the Pakistani village of Jhanger Hakim Wallah knows why the girl’s high school closed. The answer the government gives is pretty standard around the world: money.No one in the Pakistani village of Jhanger Hakim Wallah knows why the girl’s high school closed. The answer the government gives is pretty standard around the world: money.