Challenges Persist for Girls' Education in Afghanistan
TL;DR
The Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, is facing pressure from within his own movement to reverse the ban on girls attending secondary school, which he imposed last year. The ban is proving difficult to enforce in a changed Afghanistan, and the clash is spilling into the open as the new school year begins.
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- Girls returning to school is 'primary concern,' says former Afghanistan president CBC News
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