Committee to Protect Journalists

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Beenish Ahmed, a freelance journalist, describes some of her experiences reporting on education in Pakistan.

While this issue was made urgent by the shooting of Malala Yousafzai by Taliban gunmen in 2012, the country’s educational “emergency” began long before then. Ahmed discusses the conspiracy theories suggesting Yousafzai had ulterior motives and explains one reason why the coverage and accolades for her campaign for girls’ education might have become so controversial.

View Beenish’s project: Education: Pakistan’s Other Emergency