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Karzai Urges Taliban to Stop Burning Schools
[Tolo News] President  Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... urged the Taliban on Wednesday to stop torching schools in Afghanistan. President Karzai slammed the situation of education in private schools and institutions. The new school year was officially started by President Karzai banging a bell. "We are not afraid of your bombs and guns. Come and fight, but don't burn your sons' and daughters' schools. If you torch schools, then it means that you are loyal to foreigners who trained you to torch schools so that they can stay here," President Karzai said. The new school year begins as more than 400 schools have remained closed and 200,000 students are deprived of education in the country. About 8.3 million students, of which 39 percent are girls, study in 14,000 schools and educational institutions, Education Minister, Farouq Wardak, said. The minister said more than 4.5 million children of school age are still deprived of education. According to the statistics provided by education ministry, fifty percent of Afghan schools still remain without standard buildings. Posted by: Fred 2011-03-25 |
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