Rural teenage girls displaced by fighting in northern Pakistan have discovered the possibilities of full education and employment in the city of Peshawar. Their desire to partake in these opportunities causes conflict between them and their parents, however, who wish for a return to a traditional lifestyle.
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Vadim Rossman is a professor at the Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg.
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