Mubarak Azizi, the head of the education department for Afghanistan’s southern Ghazni province, has said that all girls’ schools, which were closed due to security threats, will now be reopened, according to a Pashtu-language Afghan daily.
He said that religious scholars and tribal elders held successful talks with the Taliban to encourage them to allow all of the province’s schools to be open, according to a report in the Pashtu-language newspaper Wrazpanra Sarnavesht.
He added that 20,000 girls will be able to go to schools in the province after the schools are opened.
Source: Wrazpanra Sarnavesht, Afghanistan, March 11, 2010
