Editorial | Reinforcing investment in girls’ education

In October 2012, a 15-year-old girl boarded a bus to head back home from school in her hometown of Mingora, a city in the Swat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, north-western Pakistan, when a Taliban gunman boarded the bus, asked for her by name and shot her in the head. Her offence, inculcated by her father, was the belief that girls deserved the same right to education as boys.

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