Girls school stays firm despite Taliban threats in Swat Valley, Pakistan

Rina Saeed Khan – WNN MDG Stories (WNN/PL) Sijban, Swat Valley, PAKISTAN: The Taliban destroyed more than 400 of the 1,576 schools in Swat. “Seventy percent of them were girls’ schools,” recalls Ensaullah Khan, who serves on the board of the Sarhad rural school support programme, an NGO that is helping to rebuild schools. “Then [...]


