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To defang Taliban, some look to private schools

Pakistan is seeing a surge in private schools, a trend some find hopeful in a country where the government education system is decrepit and the other alternative is religious schools, known here as madrasas, which offer little education beyond... Full Article at The Bellingham Herald

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