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KABUL (Pajhwok): Following the ban on girls’ high and university education, online courses for girls have been increasing, but students call online courses ineffective and

KABUL (Pajhwok): The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in a report says about 118.5 million girls around the world are deprived .

KABUL (Pajhwok): A number of girls have expressed grave concern over their exclusion from the university entrance examination and urged the caretaker government to open

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Many girls and women have started weaving carpets in northern Balkh province after the ban on their high and university education remains imposed.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Female high school graduates are being distributed forms to register for upcoming university entrance test locally called ‘Kankoor’ in 31 provinces, including Kabul,

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Higher Education has directed all private universities and higher educational institutes in the country to postpone registering girls for the

KABUL (Pajhwok): Girls across Afghanistan are all poised to appear in the grade-12 exam that commences today (Wednesday). The girls passing the examination will .

About 98.8 percent of Afghans support the reopening of schools for girls above sixth grade, finds an online Pajhwok Afghan News survey. Only 1.2 percent of respondents opposed girls’ return to school.

Decades of progress on gender equality and women’s rights in Afghanistan have been wiped out in mere months, said Sima Bahous, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, on Monday.

GHAZNI (Pajhwok): Many girls gather at a house daily in southern Ghazni province and study as the Islamic Emirate has been not allowing girls education

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Two minor girls were killed in a roof collapse incident in Pachiragam district of eastern Nangarhar province, officials said Tuesday. Local people and

KABUL (Pajhwok): Members of civil society institutes, political parties and tribal councils during a gathering in Kabul on Thursday called the closure of girls’ schools