Ishtiaq Khalid is having a snow day, forced to stay home from his school in the Pakistani district of Shangla due to inclement weather -- but unlike most 12-year-olds, he is not happy about it. Last month a powerful earthquake destroyed 200 schools and damaged hundreds more in Pakistan's northwest, including Ishtiaq's, leaving thousands of shivering children to study without shelter under wintry skies. It is a massive setback in an area that has not yet been able to rebuild the schools destroyed in an even more devastating quake a decade ago, and where more than a quarter of primary school age children already do not attend classes. Engineers have declared the...
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