3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (413+ words) Pakistan has clarified that Afghan students holding valid visas will be allowed to continue their education, following reports that the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) had ordered medical universities to stop admitting Afghan students and expel those enrolled. Foreign…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (374+ words) Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has called Pakistan’s decision to stop admitting Afghan students to medical and dental colleges “deeply concerning,” urging Islamabad to immediately reverse the policy and allow Afghan students to continue their education. Karzai said educational and…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (405+ words) Official letters issued by Pakistan’s Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PM&DC) and several medical universities instructed institutions to begin the immediate removal of Afghan nationals enrolled in medical and dental programs. Universities were ordered to complete all administrative procedures,…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (309+ words) Former Pakistan special envoy for Afghanistan Asif Durrani has urged Islamabad to reverse its decision to expel Afghan medical students, calling the move “shocking” and warning that forcing young women to return to Afghanistan could destroy their educational futures under…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (337+ words) UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan Richard Bennett told the UN Human Rights Council that Afghanistan’s children are growing up in an environment defined by fear, deprivation and hopelessness after nearly five years of regime change, warning that the country’s next…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (304+ words) The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned that millions of children in Afghanistan continue to face severe barriers to education, saying sustained investment is urgently needed to prevent an entire generation from being left…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (313+ words) Pakistan has suspended all medical and dental education processes for Afghan students, ordering universities to halt admissions, transfers and academic facilitation, while instructing Afghan students currently enrolled in the country to leave Pakistan. The decision was communicated through the University…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (270+ words) Nearly 100 Afghan women have graduated from the Online Women’s University, marking another milestone for an institution created after women were banned from attending universities in Afghanistan. The graduation ceremony, the university’s third since its establishment, was held simultaneously in 11 provinces,…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (414+ words) The expansion of religious schools (Madrassas) under Taliban rule could permanently reshape Afghanistan’s social fabric and deepen the country’s education crisis, Richard Bennett, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, has warned in a new report. Bennett said…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (253+ words) Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has rejected repeated requests from Taliban officials to speak positively about their rule, saying he cannot do so as long as Afghan girls remain barred from secondary schools. In an interview with the Financial Times,…...