Pakistan Girls Education

This School Lifts Pakistani Girls Out of Poverty

Alexia Parks | Posted 01.09.2012

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Alexia Parks

The story that moved Saba Gul was about a young girl who was not allowed to go to school because she was a girl. So she masked herself as a boy for 12 years.

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Andrea Stone

Exclusive: Charity Watchdog Calls For 'Three Cups Of Tea' Author Greg Mortenson's Resignation

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 09.13.2011

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The watchdog group that first warned that the bestselling author of "Three Cups of Tea" was more interested in selling books than building schools in ...

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Girls' Education in Pakistan Can't be Swept Away by Floodwaters

Susan Skog | Posted 05.25.2011

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Susan Skog

When I look at the images of the suffering in Pakistan, I think of Desmond Tutu's words, "My humanity is caught up in your humanity."

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Greg Mortenson Inspires Branksome Hall to Raise $9,000 in Pennies for Peace Drive

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marissa Bronfman

What do you get when a passionate all-girls school in Toronto sets their sights on raising money for girls in Afghanistan and Pakistan to go to school? Millions of pennies!

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Pakistan's Taliban Peace Deal A Set Back For Women

Inter Press Service | Zofeen Ebrahim | Posted 05.25.2011

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KARACHI, Feb 23 (IPS) - The ceasefire agreement reached by the provincial government in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and the Taliban on F...

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Taliban Destroy Girls' Education, Pakistan Is Powerless

Inter Press Service | Posted 05.25.2011

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PESHAWAR, Jan 28 (IPS) - "My school was destroyed by (Pakistani) Taliban. I won't be able to go back to it," says Sumaira bibi, a grade 5 student fr...

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