Taliban are gone, but Afghan women still learn to read and write in secret classrooms

Off a dirty backstreet in a far-flung suburb of Kabul, past a washing line of ragged clothes and up a dingy stairwell, is a carefully hidden upstairs room. Inside, teenage girls in headscarves sit crosslegged on the floor, faces twisted in concentration, doing something once strictly forbidden for female Afghans; learning to read and write. Read more in the Belfast Telegraph (Northern Ireland).