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"As AFP reported last week, an international expert in the field is convinced that the incidents are classic examples of mass psychogenic illness, or mass hysteria, rather than poisoning."
"While the Taliban, with their history of brutal treatment of women, are an easy target for the government and its Western backers and the alleged cruel attacks win headlines worldwide, it is the girls who suffer from a lack of transparency over the "attacks".
The Afghanistan Times daily made the point in an editorial quoting the AFP report last week, saying children could be kept from school out of fear and 'keeping a child away from education is the worst form of ignorance and offence'."
"As AFP reported last week, an international expert in the field is convinced that the incidents are classic examples of mass psychogenic illness, or mass hysteria, rather than poisoning."
"While the Taliban, with their history of brutal treatment of women, are an easy target for the government and its Western backers and the alleged cruel attacks win headlines worldwide, it is the girls who suffer from a lack of transparency over the "attacks".
The Afghanistan Times daily made the point in an editorial quoting the AFP report last week, saying children could be kept from school out of fear and 'keeping a child away from education is the worst form of ignorance and offence'."

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