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Shadi Khan Saif

Local teachers in Afghanistan reopen girls' schools, defying the Taliban's long-standing education ban

In defiance of the Taliban's ban on education for girls, locals in one province of Afghanistan have started reopening high schools.

Residents and rights activists in Paktia province told the ABC at least four secondary schools for girls in the provincial capital, Gardez, and one more in Samkani district have been reopened by local academic staff and elders. 

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