Residents of Turpi Jazira area of Imam Sahib district in northern Kunduz province say there is no school for their children in the border area. Turpi Jazira area is situated on the border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan…
Construction work on a school building has been completed at a cost of 300,000 US dollars in Injil district of western Herat province, an official said on Thursday. Education Director Maulvi Rahmatullah Jabar told a ceremony in…
Religious scholars and tribal alders of Andar district in southern Ghazni province say not even a single school exists in the entire district. They say nearly 30,000 children both girls and boys in the surrounding villages of…
A devastating blaze caused by electricity short-circuit gutted Shaheed Mir Alam Naseh high school for boys in eastern Nuristan province, an official said on Saturday. Muhammad Issa Turabi, the school principal, said the school building was severely damaged…
Using their own money, local residents have constructed a new building for a primary school in the Malistan district of southern Ghazni province, an official said on Thursday. Murad Ali, a tribal elder from the district, told…
Unknown miscreants set ablaze a middle school of boys in this capital city of southern Ghazni province and was partially burnt down. Ghazni education director Maulvi Syed Basir Ahmad Agha on Saturday said unknown people on Friday…
A resident of the Guzar village of Sancharak district of northern Sar-i-Pul province has donated 0.75 acre of land for a school. The donation of the land worth 900,000 afs, meanwhile, was welcomed by villagers and local education…
A school building has been constructed in the Jaghori district of southern Ghazni province at a cost of 18 million afghanis provided by the Swedish Committee, an official said. Abdul Baqi Younasi, education and training head of the…
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.
The education department of central Logar province says teachers and students of Zara Qala High School in the Baraki Barak district have constructed five classrooms using their own money. Shahpoor Arab, a spokesman for the provincial education department,…
A 14-year-old boy named Omaid, who earns bread for his family of eight, says he left school when he was in fourth grade and started selling ice cream to support his family. In an interview with Pajhwok…
Students and civil society activists in southeastern Khost province on Monday asked the government to open a model high school in the province. The model high school, built by the Ministry of Education, is located in Azadi…
A private school in central Bamyan province provides free education to 400 girls and boys from families with poor economic situation. Takamul Danish, a private school in the Rigshad area west of Bamayan city, the provincial capital,…
Raihana, who left education incomplete due to remoteness of her school, says she was highly interested in education and currently she has been teaching children in her house free of cost. Raihana, 17, was a student in QalaKhel…
The Education Department of southern Kandahar province has not paid the rent of 59 buildings used for schools and seminaries, Pajhwok Afghan News has reliably learned. These buildings are rented by the Education Department in parts of…
The Ministry of Information and Culture on Tuesday said that the government was preparing a policy for safety of female students of high school and women workers would soon return to their jobs. Currently girls of only primary…
The Taliban announced on Tuesday that girls would be allowed to return to school as soon as possible. Deputy Minister of Education Zabihullah Mujahid said: "We are finalising things... it will happen as soon as possible." Earlier in…
Residents and civil society activists of southeastern Paktia province say construction work on 103 school buildings is yet to be started despite promises of government officials 20 months ago. MujibRahmanKarimi, Rural Rehabilitation and Development Minister, inaugurated construction of…
Unidentified gunmen have set alight a school in the Nahr-i-Saraj district of southern Helmand province. Provincial police spokesman Mohammad Zaman told Pajhwok Afghan News on Saturday the school building was torched Saminar area last night. A large number…
Local officials on Wednesday confirmed a school building was destroyed in an airstrike by Afghan security forces in Charbulak district of northern Balkh province. Atta Mohammad Sharafyar, Charbulak district chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News that Abu Sahkoor High…
KABUL militants have set aflame a high school for girls in Kabul province on Tuesday morning, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior said on Tuesday. The Boyazar Girls’ High School was torched in the Nasiri village of Shakar Dara…
