{"id":63268,"date":"2024-02-22T21:25:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T21:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/un-praises-afghan-admin-for-letting-girls-join-medical-colleges-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T21:25:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T21:25:33","slug":"un-praises-afghan-admin-for-letting-girls-join-medical-colleges-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/un-praises-afghan-admin-for-letting-girls-join-medical-colleges-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"UN praises Afghan admin for letting girls join medical colleges | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Thursday welcomed the Afghan interim government’s decision to allow girl high school graduates admission to state-run medical colleges from the next academic year, which begins in March.<\/p>\n

\u201cUNAMA welcomes decision by Afghanistan\u2019s de facto authorities to enable female gr 12 graduate(s) enrolment in medical institutions in 11 provinces,\u201d the UN mission said in a post on X, calling the move \u201ca step in addressing worrying healthcare gaps,\u201d in the war-torn country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen and girls require full secondary\/university education access,” it added.<\/p>\n

Read also:\u00a0‘Dying every two hours’: Afghan women risk life to give birth<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The enrolment process has already begun in 11 Afghan provinces, following a directive from the Ministry of Public Health, a spokesman for the Information Ministry told Anadolu<\/em> on the phone.<\/p>\n

Following the decision, he added, girl students who have completed grade 12 can apply for admission to medical colleges in Kapisa, Paktia, Parwan, Panjshir, Paktika, Bamyan, Badakhshan, Ghazni, Maidan Wardak, Khost, and Logar provinces.<\/p>\n

The interim Taliban government has faced criticism for prohibiting girls from acquiring their education beyond the sixth grade and for prohibiting women from working in both the public and private sectors since regaining power in Afghanistan in August 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KARACHI: The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Thursday welcomed the Afghan interim government’s decision to allow girl high school graduates admission to state-run medical colleges from the next academic year, which begins in March. \u201cUNAMA welcomes decision by Afghanistan\u2019s de facto authorities to enable female gr 12 graduate(s) enrolment in medical institutions in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/Girls-studying-Afghanistan1708618717-0\/Girls-studying-Afghanistan1708618717-0.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t