Ruqaya Kashif

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

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.