Kabul University

Kabul University (KU) (Dari: ‫داﻧﺸﮕﺎه ﮐﺎﺑﻞ‬,

romanized: Danishgah-e-Kābul, Pashto: ‫د‬
‫ﮐﺎﺑﻞ ﭘﻮﻫﻨﺘﻮن‬, romanized: Da Kābul
Pohantūn)[1][2] is one of the major and
oldest institutions of higher education in
Afghanistan. It is in the 3rd District of the
capital Kabul, near the Ministry of Higher
Education. It was founded in 1931 during
the government of Mohammed Nadir Shah
and then Prime Minister Mohammad
Hashim Khan.
 Kabul University
‫داﻧﺸﮕﺎه ﮐﺎﺑﻞ‬  (Dari) Danishgah-e Kābul
‫د ﮐﺎﺑﻞ ﭘﻮﻫﻨﺘﻮن‬  (Pashto) Da Kābul Pohantūn

Latin: Universitas Cabulensis

Motto Excellence in Service

to Afghanistan

Established 1932

Chancellor Osman Babury

Students 22,000

Location Kabul, Afghanistan

Colors Black, red, and green

     

Nickname KU
Website www.ku.edu.af

Approximately 22,000 students attend

Kabul University. Of these, nearly 43% are
female. The mission of Kabul University is
to mature and prosper as an
internationally recognised institution of
learning and research, a community of
stakeholders committed to shared
governance, and a centre of innovative
thought and practice.

History
Biology class during the late 1950s or early 1960s.

The first Faculty of Medicine in Kabul, was

established by a group of Turkish
Professors of Medicine and Surgery led by
Prof. Dr. Kamil Rıfkı Urga in 1932 in the
region of Aliabad. The first Teaching -
University Hospital, called "The Aliabad
Hospital" was also built here on the
campus under the guidance and close
supervision of Turkish architects and
teaching physicians. In 1936 by the
establishment of Faculty of Law & Political
Sciences in the same campus by a Turkish
Prof. Dr. Mehmed Ali Dağpınar. The Faculty
of Law started to enroll students of Law.
Therefore, by then, these two faculties
(Medicine and School of Law) put the
foundation of the present-day "Kabul
University".The first attending Turkish
Professors of Medicine & Surgery who had
gone to Afghanistan under an official
agreement between the governments of
Afghanistan and The Turkish Republic
served in Kabul University between 1932
and 1952. The first President (Rector) of
Kabul University and Dean of the Faculty of
Medicine was a well-known Turkish
surgeon and anatomist Prof. Dr. Urga, who
to gather with 15 other Turkish physicians
taught Medicine and Surgery for a period
of 17 years. Later on, some additional
teaching staff including a French
Professor called Dr.Pierre Bolange
attended as the Dean of Faculty of
Medicine after the previous Turkish Dean,
Prof.Zuhtu Bey, who left Kabul for Ankara
in 1952. The first graduates of the Faculty
of Medicine were nine people, most of
whom played significant roles in this
country's administrative and university
community reforms. For instance,
Dr.Muhammad Yusuf (The prime minister)
and Prof. Dr. Fattah Najeem were some of
them.
Kabul University was established in 1932
during the reign of Mohammed Nadir Shah
and then Prime Minister Mohammad
Hashim Khan, opening its doors one year
later to students from across the country.
It benefitted from partnerships with the
governments of Turkey, France, Germany
and the United States.[3]

Nancy Dupree was the director of the Afghan Center

at Kabul University (ACKU) starting 1962
In the 1960s, foreign-educated scholars
populated the campus, exposing the new
generation to new topics such as
communism, feminism and capitalism.
Notable students influenced during this
era included Ahmad Shah Massoud,
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Dr. Faiz Ahmad, and
Saydal Sokhandan. Many different political
groups were influenced in the university
such as Khalqists, Parchamites,
Sholayees, and Ikhwanists. In a clash
between Ikhwanis and Sholayees, a poet
named Saydal Sokhandan was killed by
Hekmatyar in the 1970s. Saydal was fired
upon and shot by Gulbuddin during an
argument.[4]
During the governance of the People's
Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA),
Kabul University lost several lecturers and
staff. The majority of the university's
faculty left during the ten-year period of
unrest or civil war that followed after the
fall of the PDPA government in 1992. The
area around the university and Karte Char
was a major battleground in the Afghan
Civil War (1992–96).

Renovation …
Zalmay Khalilzad and Ashraf Ghani visiting the Kabul
University in 2005

After the removal of the Taliban

government in late 2001, the international
community focused on rebuilding the
educational institutions in Afghanistan. By
January 2004 the campus had only 24
computers. As part of its recovery
program, the university has established
partnerships with four foreign universities,
including Purdue University and the
University of Arizona. Furthermore, the
Information Technology Center was
founded in 2002 with the cooperation of
German Academic Exchange Service
(DAAD) and Technical University of Berlin.
The number of students in higher
education had increased across the
country from 22,717 in 2002 to 56,451 in
2008. By 2008, the Kabul University was
attended by 9,660 students, 2,336 (24%) of
them being women.

It was reported in 2007 that Iran donated

funds to the university's dentistry faculty
and donated 25,000 books. The main
library of Kabul University, which is the
best-equipped library in Afghanistan, was
built by the United States. It is equipped
with computers, books and magazines.
Nancy Dupree, wife of Louis Dupree, was
the Director of the Afghanistan Center at
the university.

In 2008, the campus of Kabul University

was provided with local network facilities
by the Information Technology center of
Kabul University (ITCK).[5] Each building is
connected to the campus network and is
provided with the internet connection from
a fiber optic backbone. The Voice over IP
(VoIP) technology was also part of the
networking project, which improved the
quality of telephone communication at the
university level.

Attacks …

On 19 July 2019, a car bomb exploded

outside the university. It killed 8 people
and injured another 33.[6]

ISIL gunmen attacked the university on 2

November 2020, killing 35 and wounding
56.[7] The attack occurred at around
11:00.[7][8]

Structure
The Faculty of Environment Science has
three Departments: Department of
Environmental Protection, Department
of Natural Resources and Management
and Department of Natural Disaster
Management.[9]
The Faculty of Law and Political
Sciences has four departments:
Department of public law, Department of
criminal law, Department of private law
and Department of International
Relation.[10]
The Faculty of Computer Science has
four departments: Software engineering
department, Computer science
department, Information technology
department and Information system
department.[11]
The Faculty of Economics has two shifts
students (day and night), five active
departments, three future planned
departments. The day shifts'
departments are: Finance Department,
Enterprise Management Department,
Econometric and Statistic Department,
National Economies Department,
Management Information Systems
Department, Counting Department
(Future Plan), Money and Banking
Department (Future Plan) and Economic
Development Department (Future Plan).
The night shifts' departments are:
Finance Department, Enterprise
Management Department and National
Economics Department.[12]
The Faculty of Science has four
departments: Department of biology,
Department of mathematics,
Department of Chemistry and
Department of physics.[13]
The Faculty of Engineering has five
departments: Mechanical engineering
department, Electrical & electronics
engineering department, Architectural
department, Energy engineering
department and Civil engineering
 department.[14] An estimated 600
students are taking classes there.

Kabul University Engineering Faculty

The Faculty of Pharmacy has five

departments: Department of
Pharmacology-Toxicology, Department
of Pharmaceutics, Department of
Pharmacognosy, Department of
Microbiology and Department of
Biochemistry-Nutrition. It has eight
laboratories.[15] An estimated 400
students are taking classes there.
The Faculty of Agriculture has eight
departments: Agronomy Department,
Economics and Agricultural Extension
Department, Forestry & Natural
Resources Department, Department of
Biotechnology and seed production,
Department of Animal Sciences,
Department of Soil Science and
Irrigation, Horticulture Department, and
Plant Protection Department.[16]
The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine has
five departments: Department of Animal
Production, Department of Para clinic,
Department of Clinic, Department of
Preclinical, and Department of food
Hygiene and Technology.[17]
The Faculty of Journalism has two
departments: Radio &TV Department
and Press Department.[18]
The Allama Iqbal Faculty of Arts built at
a cost of around $10 million by
neighboring country Pakistan, was
established in 2010. The building
contains 28 classrooms, two seminar-
halls, a library, two computer labs, 20
faculty offices. It covers an area of
143,379 square feet (13,320.3 m2).
Afghan and Pakistani officials
inaugurated the building in July 2010.
The Faculty of Language and Literature
have ten Departments: Pashto
Language and Literature Department,
Dari Language and Literature
Department, The English Department,
Russian Language Department, German
Language Department, Turkish
Language Department, Department of
French Language, Arabic Language
Department, Spanish Language
Department and Chinese Language
Department.[19]
The Faculty of Fine Arts have six
Departments: Sculpture Department,
Painting Department, Graphic
Department, Theatre Department, Music
Department, playwright and
screenwriting Department.[20]
The Faculty of Islamic Studies have
eight Departments: Religious
Jurisprudence, Principles of Islamic
Jurisprudence, Belief and Philosophy,
Narrations of Prophet, Interpretation of
Quran, Manner and Eloquence,
Preaching of Islam and Islamic
Culture.[21]
 The Faculty of Social Science have three
Departments: Archaeology and
Anthropology Department, Philosophy
Department and History Department.[22]
Psychology and Educational Science
Faculty has six departments: Education,
Psychology, Administration,
Management, Advisor and
Instruction.[23]

National Centre for Policy

Research
The National Centre for Policy Research
was established at Kabul University by the
Ministry of Higher Education and Konrad
Adenauer Foundation in 2003, and
includes faculty in the departments of Law
and Politics, Economics, and Social
Science.[24][25]

Library

Inside the university's Central Library in 2008

In 1992, the library held 200,000 books,

5,000 manuscripts, 3,000 rare books,
periodicals, photographs and calligraphic
specimens. Following a civil war, most
materials were sold in book markets,
burnt, destroyed, or lost.[26] It served as the
National Library of Afghanistan.

Notable alumni
Notable graduates of Kabul University
include:

Former Afghan Prime Minister Dr.

Mohammad Yusuf.
Former Afghan Prime Minister
Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal.
Former Afghan Prime Minister
Mohammad Musa Shafiq.
Former Afghan Commerce and
Economy Minister Mohammad Khan
Jelallar.
Former Dean of Faculty of Medicine
Prof. Dr. Abdulkader Baha.
Former Surgeon Prof. Dr. Abdurrahim
Lodin.
Former Afghan Marxist head of state
Hafizullah Amin
Afghan politician Abdullah Abdullah
Afghan politician Tahir Badakhshi
Afghan ambassador to Nordic countries
Manizha Bakhtari
Afghan poet Wasef Bakhtari
Afghan activist Hamida Barmaki
American archaeologist Nancy Dupree
Former President of Afghanistan Babrak
Karmal
Former President of Afghanistan
Mohammad Najibullah
Afghan Marxist politician Anahita
Ratebzad
Former President of Afghanistan Nur
Muhammad Taraki
Former President of Afghanistan
Burhanuddin Rabbani
Former Afghan guerilla and military
leader Ahmad Shah Massoud
 This article's list of alumni may not follow
Wikipedia's verifiability policy. Learn more

See also
List of universities in Afghanistan

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External links

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USAIDAfghanistan.
Kabul University students to compete at
DC moot court on YouTube, 6 March
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