Afghan Taliban Refuses To Attend Muslim Girls’ Education Summit In Pakistan

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai is attending the summit.


Islamabad, Pakistan:

The Afghan Taliban government is not attending a global summit on girls’ education in the Muslim world hosted by neighbours Pakistan, Islamabad said Saturday.

“We had extended an invitation to Afghanistan but no-one from the Afghan government was at the conference,” Education Minister Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui told AFP.

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