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Indian-funded ANASTU on brink of closure

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KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Government’s negligence and other problems have pushed the Afghan National Agricultural Sciences and Technology University (ANASTU) in southern Kandahar province to the verge of closure.

Former president Hamid Karzai and Indian foreign minister Salman Khurshid inaugurated the university in February 2014 in the sprawling Tarnak farm.

At that time it was said students at the university would do doctorate and master’s level studies and both local and foreign teachers would be appointed.

But despite the passage of about two years, the university has been without leadership, library and . . .

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