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Afghan President Hamid Karzai pleaded with insurgents on Saturday to stop attacking schools so that the five million Afghan children with no access to education can reach their potential.

"Five million school-aged children of our country, can't go to school," Karzai said. "Some of them due to Taliban attacks and their schools' being shut down, and others due to lack of facilities." "If they (Taliban) shut down schools ... I can say that they are committing an atrocity against Afghanistan and Islam," Karzai said.