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Summary Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged the Taliban to stop targeting schools.
Karzai said that burning and attacking schools was a cowardly act adding that school was a public place where young generations learn in order to serve the nation. He said. “If you want the foreign troops to leave this country, then let Afghan sons and daughters be educated.”During the Talibans five-year rule, only boys were allowed to attend school, while female education was banned under the government of the hardline Islamist group. The Afghan Ministry of Education said that nearly five hundred schools remained closed due to security reasons and were mostly in the southern region where the Taliban militants were active. During the collapse of the Taliban regime in 2001, nearly two million children, mostly boys, attended school.
