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Pul-e-Jawan: A Regional Peace-building Team
Pul-e-Jawan, which literally means “bridges of youth” in Dari, Urdu and Hindi, is a group of regional peace building and active youth from Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. In September 2011, Internews, Afghanistan took initiative and invited five citizen journalists with an interest in peace and reconciliation issues from each of the above countries (a total of fifteen people) to meet in Kabul. The aim of Pul-e-Jawan is to provide an exchange for the youth and to bridge any gaps and issues…
This Time in Bamyan
Back in April of this year, my colleague, Una and I came to Bamyan for a needs assessment survey at Bamyan University (hereafter BU). The university is located in the provincial center. The number of students as per last April was over 1700. Its academics are faculties of Education, Social Sciences, Agriculture, Geology. And faculties of Computer Science, Journalism and Health to open in 2012. We took a tour of BU’s old and new campuses. BU’s new campus that was…
My University Graduation
Four years ago in February I took the Kankor Exam, the university entrance exam in Afghanistan. Kankor is like the American SAT. It is developed and scored by the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) of Afghanistan. Kankor includes questions about the several subjects we study in high school (mathematics, physics, chemistry, languages, geography, history and Islamic studies) and it normally takes three and a half hours. That year (2007) more than 80000 students took the exam and less than 2000…