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Pakistan: Education's Fault Lines

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In the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks and the Obama administration's announcement of troop...

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Journalists Sarah Stuteville and Alex Stonehill spent six weeks crisscrossing Pakistan to report on the country's growing education crisis. Both are funded by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and spoke recently with iWitness from Karachi about their experience.

Watch the interview and find out why they believe Pakistan's religious schools get an unfair rap from the West, and how so-called "ghost schools" are at the heart of the state's failings. The two also talk with a Swat resident in Karachi who has just fled the fighting, and why his presence in the city is causing new tensions.

This interview is the first in a new partnership between the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Frontline/World iWitness. Stay tuned for more interviews from Pulitzer Center journalists.

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