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For Pakistani girls, just going to class is a risk (slideshow)

by Diego Ibarra Sanchez

Shazia Ramzan was hurt in the same Taliban attack that critically wounded an outspoken teenage advocate of education rights, Malala Yousafzai, in October. Since then, the Taliban have continued their war against girls’ education in northwestern Pakistan, bombing schools and terrifying pupils and parents.

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