Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston
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Afghanistan
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Baroness Evans of Bowes Park (Con)
I am afraid that I do not have a running list of every negotiation happening, but I am very happy to go back to colleagues and write to the noble Baroness with recent contacts.
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston (Non-Afl)
My Lords, as it happens, today is Malala Yousafzai’s 24th birthday—an exceptionally forceful reminder that the right to education and the relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan simply cannot be ignored. I accept the unwillingness to give a running commentary of who we have or have not talked to. However, we know that things are not going to get any easier. Will the Minister undertake to give more precise details of how the Government intend to, first, deal with Pakistan in that relationship and, secondly, ensure that the right to education for girls will continue to progress in even a slightly comparable way to the progress we have made so far?
Baroness Evans of Bowes Park (Con)
As I said, I have already made a commitment to write on Pakistan, so I shall do that.