Unit 4: Selection Vocabulary 1

The boys’ school would reopen after the holidays, but the loss of the girls’ school represented a big cut in our income.

The Taliban is against education because they think that when a child reads a book or learns English or studies science he or she will become Westernized.

I also wrote about people going to watch the floggings announced on Mullah FM, and the fact that the army and police were nowhere to be seen.

We saw the Red Mosque where the siege had taken place, the buildings of the Parliament House and the Presidency, where Zardari now lived.

We visited the Lok Virsa museum, and it was a joy to celebrate our national heritage once again.

I would like to thank my parents for their unconditional love.

It is time to take action so it becomes the last time, the last time, so it becomes the last time that we see a child deprived of education.

We decided to raise our voice and tell them: Have you not learnt, have you not learnt that in the Holy Quran Allah says: if you kill one person it is as if you kill the whole humanity?

But they have not stopped learning. And my brave sister Kainat Soomro who went through severe abuse and extreme violence, even her brother was killed, but she did not succumb.

Many children in countries like Pakistan and India, as Kailash Satyarthi mentioned, many children, especially in India and Pakistan are deprived of their right to education because of social taboos, or they have been forced into child marriage or into child labour.

In year 2015, representatives from all around the world will meet in the United Nations to set the next set of goals, the Sustainable Development Goals.