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Swat Girls Get a Haven in Islamabad

Posted by Christopher Allbritton on August 27, 2009 at 4:31 pm +0000 · 7 Comments 

Embed­ded video from CNN Video My friend Shiza Shahid has spent this sum­mer work­ing on a retreat for school­girls of the Swat Val­ley after the Tal­iban pre­vented them from attend­ing school. CNN has the report on it. School-age girls are among the vic­tims in the fierce fight­ing between gov­ern­ment sol­diers and Tal­iban mil­i­tants in the Swat […]

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