Taliban loyalists attack girls' schools.October 30 saw the latest in a series of well-coordinated attacks by suspected Taliban sympathisers against girls' schools Girls' School was a single by Paul McCartney and his former band Wings. Written and produced by Paul McCartney it was the other side of the double A-side with Mull Of Kintyre,and was the band's sole UK number one, spending nine weeks at the top in December 1977 and January in Afghanistan. Four schools in Wardak province, a short drive from Kabul, were attacked in a deliberate and systematic attempt to stop parents from sending their daughters to study. The attackers fired two rockets into school buildings in villages near the town of Maidan Mai`dan´ n. 1. In various parts of Asia, an open space, as for military exercises, or for a market place; an open grassy tract; an esplanade. A gallop on the green maidan. - M. Crawford. Shah, demolishing classroom walls and setting the buildings on fire. They also raided a school at a village mosque, setting fire to its wooden chairs and blackboard (1) See Blackboard Learning System. (2) The traditional classroom presentation board that is written on with chalk and erased with a felt pad. Although originally black, "white" boards and colored chalks are also used. . The attackers left behind an unexploded grenade grenade (grĭnād`), small bomb filled with explosives, gas, or chemicals and either thrown by hand or shot from a modified rifle or a grenade launcher. Grenades were in use as early as the 15th cent. and several leaflets warning parents to keep their girls at home. The attacks are not the first of their kind and demonstrate that, nearly a year after the fall of the Taliban, the interim government faces increasing resentment from pro-Taliban fundamentalists. There is growing hostility towards the continued presence of American troops in the country, much of the aid pledged by western donors has not materialised, and leader Hamid Karzai Hamid Karzai (Persian and Pashto: حامد کرزي) (b. December 24, 1957) is the current President of Afghanistan, since December 7, 2004. He became the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime. , who survived an assassination Assassination See also Murder. assassins Fanatical Moslem sect that smoked hashish and murdered Crusaders (11th—12th centuries). [Islamic Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 52] Brutus conspirator and assassin of Julius Caesar. [Br. attempt two August, has little real power. Instead, local warlords Warlords may refer to:
Under Taliban rule, female education was outlawed and women teachers were sacked, although some girls attended underground schools. Since the Taliban's demise, 3 million children have gone back to school - 30% of them girls. In March, Afghanistan's new education ministry rehired thousands of teachers who had been sacked by the Taliban, including many women who were banned from teaching. But attitudes towards girls' education remain mixed. In the south, much of the conservative Pashtun community remains hostile towards the idea of girls going to school, especially after the age of 10. The arson in Wardak came after an explosion at a school in the southern city of Kandahar earlier in October and the burning of two school tents in another northern province in September. The attacks are normally preceded by pamphlets distributed overnight, which warn parents not to send their daughters to school. Source: 'The Guardian, 31. 10. 02 |
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