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Girls Over 6th Grade Concerned About Their Educational Future:

Report in TOLOnews Online, Dec 08, 2023 at 8:43 PMAt the end of the 1402 solar school year, a number of sixth grade girls have expressed concern about not being able to go to school next year. They asked the caretaker government not to prevent girls from going to school in the next academic year. More than two years have passed, and there is still no news about the reopening of school for girls above…

Afghan Girls Continue to Call for Reopening of Schools:

Report in TOLOnews Online, Nov 22, 2023 at 8:46 PMSeveral female students above sixth grade voiced concerns about their future as the final exams of school began in the country. Some of the students said they are worried that they won’t be allowed to study and participate in exams next year. 12-year-old Zahra, who is in the 6th grade, is preparing for tomorrow’s exam. She said she is afraid that won’t be allowed to continue…

Aladdin Orphanage becomes religious school following Taliban return

By Fidel Rahmaati in The Khaama Press Online, October 22, 2023Aladdin Orphanage, a part of the government-run housing institution designed primarily to accommodate orphaned girls and children, has been transformed into a religious school following the resurgence of the Taliban. Salma, a recent graduate from the orphanage, told the Khaama Press News Agency that approximately 48 girls reside in this facility. According to Salma, at least 25 of them are younger girls from the sixth…

Exclusive: Students have to cross two rivers to go to school

by Naznin Akhter in Prothom ALo, Oct 2, 2023Kishoreganj: It’s a village named Goradighi in the haor region. Boats are the sole way of communication to and from that village in both rainy and dry seasons. There ae no secondary schools in the village under Singpur union of Kishhoreganj’s Nikli upazila. If they want to continue studying after class five, students of the village have to cross two rivers to go to another village in…

School assault

Editorial in Dawn, Sept 7th, 2023SHOCKING details about a series of assaults, reportedly committed at a Karachi school, point to the ugly fact that sexual predators often operate in society while hiding behind the veneer of ‘respectability’. According to police, the owner/principal of a school located in the metropolis’s Gulshan-i-Hadeed area is accused of assaulting numerous women, and filming the crimes to blackmail the victims. The suspect would allegedly lure the women by offering them…

School attacked in Mastung

report in Dawn, June 15th, 2023QUETTA: A private school was damaged in a grenade attack on Wedne­s­day in Mastung town. Police said some motorcyclists hurled the grenade at the Taleem Foundation Grammar School in the Sarawan area. However, the grenade exploded outside the school. The explosion damaged the school’s boundary wall and sma­shed some windowpanes. The attackers fled the scene after the incident. No person or group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.https://www.dawn.com/news/1759809/school-attacked-in-mastung

They left home for Hizrat being inspired to radicalism

report in Prothom Alo, 03 Jan 2023Nine students of different schools and colleges of the country were made members of a Facebook group titled ‘Duniya Kiye Musafir’. In the group, they were inspired to radicalism in the name of religious education. Days later, they were engaged to another group on Telegram, a social media platform, where they were taught about different religious issues in a bid to radicalise their minds. At a stage, they were…

Karzai: Reopening Girls’ Schools is Vital Issue for Country

By Fatema Adeeb in TOLOnews, Nov 30, 2022 at 9:16 PMThe former president of the country said that dialogue among Afghans and the reopening of schools for girls are the vital issues facing the country. The former president of the country in a tweet reported that in a meeting with the ambassador of Japan they spoke about the importance of dialogue among Afghans and the reopening schools for girls. “Dialogue among Afghans, and reopening girls’…