In the Taliban’s Afghanistan, girls are barred from school beyond 6th grade. But religious schools are booming

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Kabul, Afghanistan
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“I want” – the girl stops herself – “I wanted to be a doctor in the future. But when the Taliban came to Afghanistan,…