Pakistani School Pakistani children ... ... Tomorrow Pakistan ...

• Pakistani School Pakistani children ... ... Tomorrow Pakistan ...

"In Peshawar recently suffered a terrorist attack at the school, killed the children, so the classes we will not allow it, to shoot too, can not, for this you need to obtain permission from the Ministry of Education, then come ..." With this formulation, we politely refused the request to shoot and to communicate with the children in a public school located near Islamabad ... in fairness, we note that it was the only school in which they refused to communicate with children.

Literally across the street is another school - private. Here let us be happy. All schools in the country very much, both private and public. Paid education is not cheap at all for Pakistan, the average cost from 30 to 100 dollars a month. And while the classes are overcrowded in all schools.

Every visit to the school start is standard with the principal's office. Tea, acquaintance, communication. Then we spend on classes. Of course, trying to show the life of the school and its best pupils. Something is vaguely reminiscent of our Soviet past. Team-kids get up, greet the chorus ... In junior high choir perform some uncomplicated song.

We go to the next class ... lunch. Everyone brings food with them. Before eating all the children read the words of the chorus of prayer ... In general, religious education is not the last place here. In every school, in every class from the start to the outlet have learned Islam - every day, six days a week. During the lessons, it is important to teach and the history of religion, and religion itself. We have for example, was only a story, and then only as an optional course, and only at the institute.

In the lessons, as elsewhere, there is a big change. Boys playing volleyball, girls sit on benches and watch ... The jokes, running, ordinary child's life ... But it is possible to notice a certain specifics, which we do not have: respect for elders, respect for the guests, a special relationship to the girls. By the way, for girls - school, one of the places where you can not cover the face, but for us one of the few opportunities to take pictures of the girls and talk to them ...

By the way, learning about everywhere together, the most that we've seen, this passage is divided into two parts, the class left - boys, on the other hand - the girls. Apparently contain some classes and the school is very expensive.

And of course the children a little bit different depending on the region. In the vicinity of Islamabad is very common an amazing mix of people. It seems that this is Bob from the neighbor's house, and next to the girl with the eastern type of person, but again Mary from next door ... A lot of beautiful people from our European point of view ...

I ask a question about the two girls age 11-12 that important for a happy life? One hesitates, the other is more resourceful - The main thing to learn - surely she says. I ask about religion - of course, Islam. And if someone believes in something else? No problem. We are happy in Islam, but if someone is happy in another faith, that is his choice, and it is also very good. The answer is somewhat unexpected. I am trying to ask a provocative question: What if your future husband will not profess Islam, and other religions, what would you do? In response to a complete misunderstanding of the question ... Translator explains. This question can only be specified adolescent girls. The girls in the 10-12 years of marriage there are no concepts, they do not think about it, and for them it's unclear category ... If the European countries, girls almost from birth play Ken and Barbie and understand what to get married, then there is this no ... Education is much stricter and more conservative ... True or not, I do not know ... In this case, the behavior and the permissibility, the girls learn and take over from their parents and sisters almost from the cradle ...

I try to communicate with teachers. The most interesting conversation turns tete-a-tete after the official part. Here it is - a teacher in a small rural village in the region of upper Hunza. I hear the familiar words: "The trouble is our people's lack of understanding of Islam ..." It is to me already saying Afghan refugees in Islamabad ... please wait. It turns out very interesting. He is confident that the total lack of understanding of Islam among the residents of the country ... very few understand it wrong, from this all the problems ... But the reason ... a lot of reasons, despite the abundance of schools, literacy including religion in the country is very low ... but it Hunza, it generally stands apart from the rest of the country ...

As I said, take off the streets is often almost impossible ... Therefore, at every opportunity, I stopped by to school ... View, communicate, and most importantly - to look into the children's gas ... Sometimes these views can tell about the life of the people more than the whole volume write a book and tell the story ...

Below are just kids from different schools ... For simplicity, I divided them into three conditional parts. School in Islamabad. School in Hunza. School in the upper Hunza - just there lived famous centenarians ... And separately - a small school in a remote canyon. It is these schools and communities most in Pakistan ...