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Afghan women attending a school after the fall of the Taliban. Credit: USAID Education Opposition within Afghanistan to girls’ participation in education predates the Taliban. Historically, education for girls was rare in rural Afghanistan and almost exclusively confined to the capital. In 1919 King Amanullah seized the Afghan throne and began a rapid development of […]https://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/files/2008/08/wa_img_flyingdown_hb_1.jpg