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Lack of female teachers: Nangarhar records 75pc dropouts

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JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Seventy-five percent of schoolgirls in eastern Nangarhar province leave their education incomplete owing to the shortage of female teachers, school buildings, cultural restrictions and underage marriages.

However, the Nangarhar education department says it has accelerated efforts at solving problems the schoolgirls face and that many schools would get buildings this solar year.

Habibullah Shinwari, the education director, acknowledged during an interview with Pajhwok Afghan News that 75 percent of schoolgirls in the province abandoned their . . .

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