Taliban Guns Down 14-year-old Pakistani Education Advocate
At 14, Malala Yousafzai had already become one of Pakistan’s most prominent advocates for female education. Her blog attracted so much attention in her home country abroad that, despite her young age,...
View ArticleTaliban Attacks Girls with Acid for ‘Western’ Education
Taliban groups operating in Pakistan are stepping up their attacks aimed at keeping girls from receiving a “Western” education. Last month, a group of girls in a college van in the city of Parachinar...
View ArticleIslamic Militants Kill 5 Female Teachers in Pakistan
Seven are dead in Northwest Pakistan after Islamic militants ambushed a vehicle in which five female teachers and two non-governmental aid workers were traveling. No individuals or groups have claimed...
View ArticleWomen’s Ed Advocate Shot by Taliban Heads Back to School
Malala Yousafzai, an education advocate for women in the Muslim world who was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman for her work, is now far enough along in her recovery to go back to school, The Daily...
View ArticleIslamization Affecting Higher Education in Pakistan
Professors and students, former and current, claim students are “attached” to religion in universities throughout Pakistan — what’s being called Islamization in the classroom — which has developed...
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