Em No Kevin they learn to recite the Quaran by rote, somewhere in the dim mists of my time in the region, I heard somewhere that it is a blasphamy for anyone other than a certain rank of scholar or cleric to copy from the Quaran, it must be written in Arabic and then translated.

No Kevin little Pashtu peasant boys from Afghanistan are not taught to read and write in Madrassas, they are taught the Quaran.