To Live & Die in Karachi

Colorful textbooks help children learn the Koran in a Karachi madrasah
JOHN STANMEYER / VII

Colorful textbooks help children learn the Koran in a Karachi madrasah. In many parts of the city these fundamentalist religious schools are the only ones available, where the Koran is taught by rote and no other academic instruction is provided

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