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Pakistan: Attack on girls' school in Waziristan kills one
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
One person was killed and a security personnel was injured in an attack when unknown militants opened fire on a girls' school in Pakistan's South Waziristan on Thursday, according to Dawn. The attack took place in a school in the Azam Warsak area of the South Waziristan district.
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Female students in Farah call on Taliban to reopen girls' schools
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
This comes as officials of the Department of Education in Farah said that around 3,500 female students are studying in 19 seminaries in the province, reported Tolo News.
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Taliban calls out UN Security council to permanently end all travel bans
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Earlier in September, Human Rights Watch urged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) not to extend the existing government officials' travel exemption as a result of the closure of girls' schools in Afghanistan and the Taliban's atrocities against women and girls in the war-torn nation.
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CM Dhami seeks urgent filling of vacant guest teacher posts in Uttarakhand
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
While directing the officers, Chief Minister Dhami said, "3 thousand vacant posts of class IV should be filled through the establishment of residential girls' schools on the lines of Rajiv Gandhi Navodaya Vidyalaya in every district and through outsourced schools and damaged school buildi
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Gilgit-Baltistan witnesses growing influence of Taliban
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Amid the regressive policies of Pakistan, Gilgit-Baltistan is witnessing the growing influence of the Taliban in the region.
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Afghanistan: Tribal elders call out Taliban to reopen girls' schools in Ni
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Tribal elders in Nimroz province of Afghanistan called out the Taliban to reopen schools for girls above the sixth grade and said that depriving young girls of education is not in the interest of the country, TOLO news reported.
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Pakistan rights group condemns arson attack on a girls' school in Gilgit B
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
A girls' school in Gilgit-Baltistan's Diamer district was torched early on Tuesday. According to Dawn newspaper, local officials have held "terrorists" responsible for this reprehensible act and have promised to rebuild the school along with providing security to educational institutions.
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Afghanistan: Social media campaign calls out Taliban to open secondary sch
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
A social media campaign called "Let Afghan Girls Learn" is doing the rounds in Afghanistan to call out the Taliban to immediately open the gates of secondary and high schools for girls in the country.
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TTP terrorists burnt girls' school in Gilgit Baltistan: Report
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
So far, no group has claimed the responsibility. Islamists, no matter which sect they belong to, are extremely opposed to giving girls' access to education in Gilgit Baltistan.
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Residents in Afghan province of Wardak demand schools for girls
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Residents of Day Mirdad district in the southern part of Maidan Wardak Province of Afghanistan demanded the establishment of girls' schools in the province and called for the reopening of schools for girls above sixth grade across the country.
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Denying Afghan girls from education is national treason: Kabul's Envoy to
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 19 (ANI): As the closure of schools for girls in Afghanistan completed one year on Sunday, the Charge d'Affaires of Kabul's Permanent Mission to the United Nations, Naseer Ahmad Faiq said denying the girls their basic rights to education is "national treason
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90 pc Afghans in online poll supports reopening girls' schools as Taliban
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 17 (ANI): About ninety per cent of voters in Afghanistan supported the reopening of schools for girls beyond grade six, and 10 per cent opposed the decision, as per an online poll conducted by Afghanistan's local media outlet TOLO news.
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