Islamabad (AP) - recently filmed a teenage activists and seriously wounded taliban risk their lives to go to school, but the threat of the militant group is only a Pakistani girl in accept education faces many obstacles.
Others include rampant poverty, harassment and government failure, make education spending priorities. Male and female are subject to the problem of shortage of funds, but the girl, who literacy rate and enrollment rate reduced, is in a particularly dangerous situation.
15 years old horse to pull Yousufzai, in Britain hospital, October 9 attack show that girls education obstacle is the highest, in Pakistan's northwestern region of the taliban is one of the strongest. Militants blew up hundreds of school education movement abducted and killed the Sagittarius LABS.
To education demand is obvious:
- only 40% of Pakistan girl or young literacy, according to the United Nations.
- about 50% of the girl in the school student, according to protect children's rights association report.
- only one 5 of the students are women along the Afghan border in the semi-autonomous tribal areas, the taliban's main sanctuary country, according to the United Nations
The taliban and its Allies against education, this is rooted in their hawkish explanation, Islam and object women going out to work or travel, without a male companionship.
Militants destroyed or damaged at least 943 schools in the tribal areas and open "er - PuHe diagram Hector tile ○ ○ province two nine years to 2011, according to the number of the Pakistani government.
Some people's goal, because they are used in military, but many attack motive is the taliban girl education and school education not strictly according to their explanation against Islam.
"The taliban fear, hamid karzai said:" YouLa from next DiErHan, the teacher in the open boel - PuHe diagram Hector tile province. "It is also a main reason, women in the better school."
The government and the international community cooperation, rebuild some schools taliban target. But attacks on our education system has been in all parts of the country the ruins, part of the reason is due to the low level of government spending.
The school infrastructure education crisis is obvious. Only 39% of the schools have electricity, only 62% have bathroom, according to the society for the protection of children's rights.
Many Pakistan's family are trying to make ends meet, if they rich books and uniforms or private school tuition, they tend to be more like to spend money on education, as their male children.
Allah month, in the north waziristan tribal region mir ali town, a teacher said, most parents would be happy to offer their daughter to school, but many have big family, no money to you.
Many families in conservative region, northwest region and other regions of the country worry to send her daughter to school, because they may be harassed way, or when they arrive. Many people also against their daughter has male teachers. The bathroom, especially girls separate facilities lack, prevented many parents who don't want their daughter to relieve yourself in a field.
Group, has succeeded in education girl said, they are concentrated in the parents' attention.
On the basis of Karachi citizens foundation is a non-profit organization, has been built 838 private schools throughout in Pakistan, including more than 100 in the open boel - PuHe diagram Hector tile provinces and the southwestern baluchistan province of female enrollment is generally low countries, whether conservative region. About 50% of the students are women, according to its web site statistics.
The organization of a former vice President, Ahson the Pakistani government, social organization set up schools, let the students don't have a long journey, to build there separate toilet girl, boy and teachers. The school was surrounded in a defender before going out on the wall, all the teachers and students from the same community of women.
The girl's education are more likely to send their daughter go to school, when they grow up, have children said, ancient lhamo zaki da, in the capital Islamabad nearby rawalpindi city, in the government's woman the headmaster of the school.
When zaki has become a major 33 years ago, she was actively lobbying parents send their children to school, has focused on the relationship between the establishment and the local community, and hired a good female teachers. Now the school is so popular, and even some boys parents pushing send their children, to give up the government nearby boy's school.



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