Taliban The killing follows other recent attacks on schools and teachers, particularly those educating girls, in the insurgency-afflicted south of the country. Under the Taliban interpretation of Sharia law female education is banned. Since the fall of the Taliban the Afghan government claims that more than five million Afghans, many of them women, have returned to education. But Kabul's education director, Mohammed Nabi Khushal, said only 70 of the province's 170 schools are currently open because of repeated arson attacks and threats against teachers by the
Shaikh Mata Baba school had both male and female students, he said. Mr Habib, who had seven children, was well known in the area as a teacher with more than two decades experience. Relatives said he had previously taught children injured by mines for the Belgian charity Handicap International. Deteriorating security forced Handicap International to suspend its operations in Zabul four months ago, a spokesman for the charity said. Habib's murder follows the killing of another teacher by suspected Taliban
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