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FIGHTING PAKISTAN'S GENDER GAP - 2003-06-06

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Friday, 2003, June 6
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CNN) --Izatullah Baig in the small mountain village of Passu is grateful that his children of both sexes had a good education. In Pakistan's Northern Areas, the Aga Khan charitable foundation funds schools and academies for both boys and girls, without discrimination.

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H.H. Prince Karim Aga Khan IV


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Fighting Pakistan's gender gap - FIGHTING PAKISTAN'S GENDER GAP - 2003-06-06

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Izatullah Baig in the small mountain village of Passu is grateful that his children of both sexes had a good education.
In Pakistan's Northern Areas, the Aga Khan charitable foundation funds schools and academies for both boys and girls, without discrimination.

Here women are lucky. Elsewhere in rural areas like the poor Balochistan province, there is a big gender gap in schools.

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