KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Despite multiple challenges to the education sector, 35,000 new students have been enrolled in schools this academic year in southern Kandahar province, officials say.
Education Department spokesman Nazar Mohammad Samimi told Pajhwok Afghan New the enrolmentincrease had been recorded in different districts and the provincial capital showing.
He estimated the surge at 30 percent, regretting parental failure at the district level to send their children to school. Instead, he said many parents in rural areas wanted their children to work in order supplement . . .
