Education in Afghanistan
‘We are erased’: The fight to reopen girls secondary schools in Afghanistan continues
This past week, girls in the province of Paktia in eastern Afghanistan went to the streets to protest. The Taliban had reopened their schools but ordered them shut again. Girls’ education in Afghanistan has become a sensitive topic since the Taliban came to power last year. They have closed down nearly all secondary schools for girls in the country.
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Afghanistan Reacts to ‘Three Cups’ Author’s Accounts of School Building
CBS “60 Minutes” is not widely broadcast inside Afghanistan or Pakistan, but you wouldn’t know it from the reactions from a story over the weekend. In a take down of the famous book, “Three Cups of Tea,” CBS disputed the veracity of Greg Mortenson’s his charity work. CBS also took issue with the finances of […]
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