Afghanistan school fires

TWO girls’ schools have been set alight in Afghanistan, where the ousted Taliban regime was against the education of girls.

One school was in the Bala Bluk district in southwestern Farah province and the other was in the mountainous district of Kishem in northeastern Badakhshan province, UN spokesman Manuel De Almeida E Silva said.

More than 30 girls’ schools have been burnt since the Taliban were forced out of power in 2001, according to a UN report.