Education is becoming an extremist battleground in Pakistan - The Washington Post - 0 views
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The one year anniversary commemorations of the heinous attack on a Peshawar public school were barely over when gunmen once again went from classroom to classroom killing students and staff at a Pakistani university nearby.
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n doing so, they are attacking the one area of Pakistani society where there is clear reason for optimism, as the growth of low-cost private schools in recent decades has given more and more young people, particularly girls, access to education.
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aw revenge is clearly a motive as the Taliban protest against military bombings of their hideouts in the tribal areas.
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The Taliban has already been successful with this approach on other fronts. Their attacks on polio aid workers have proven effective in disrupting the country’s entire public health system
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Together with Jishnu Das of the World Bank, we have been researching Pakistan’s education sector for nearly 20 years.
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Research shows that the education debate in Pakistan is similar to the education debate in any other country: parents grapple with a choice of schools based on the usual set of considerations: Which of the schools nearby is best? How much should we pay? Is our child getting the best quality education?
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But education is a unique service – not only because it involves a country’s most precious resource, its children – but also because, by increasing human capital, it strengthens the state not only in the present, but in the future.
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As we speak, many schools are announcing temporary closure of facilities in the aftermath of the latest attack