A Pakistani seventh grade schoolgirl is writing a diary after Taleban militants in the troubled north-western Swat district ordered schools to close as part of an edict banning girls' education. Militants seek to impose their austere interpretation of Sharia law and have destroyed about 150 schools in the past year. In the third extract of her diary written in part from the relative safety of Islamabad, she chronicles her first impressions of the city after arriving from Swat and events leading up to her family's departure.
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Friday, 30 January 2009
Swat: Diary of a school girl in Pakistan
Labels:
Girls Schools,
Radical Islam,
Swat,
Taliban,
Terrorism
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