Author: Education Will Win Afghanistan, Pakistan
“If you educate a boy, you educate an individual,” he said. “If you educate a girl, you educate a community.”
This is especially true in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan, where Islam is the predominant religious tradition, he said.
Giving girls access to education has a direct effect on the recruitment efforts of extremist organizations like the Taliban, which ruled Afghanistan before the U.S. invaded in 2001.
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