“Education is under fire in Afghanistan” UNICEF said this as attacks on schools tripled between 2017 and 2018, surging from 68 to 192. More than 1,000 schools closed by 2018-end depriving half a million children of education. Around 3.7 million children between the ages of 7 and 17 are out of school in Afghanistan, which is nearly half of all school-aged children. But girls’ schools are the main target in Afghanistan too, just like the situation witnessed in Pakistan.