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Armed forces
Regular army officers are trained in a military school in Kabul. There
is a small air force, with bases at Bagram , Shindand, and Jalalabad.
A secret police force was organized in the late 1970s.Currently there
are no military structure or military education facility left as a
result of the the internal warfare between former Mujahideen group
during 1992 to 1996.
Education
Education was free at all levels, and elementary education was officially
compulsory wherever it is provided by the state. Nonetheless, fewer
than one-fourth of all Afghan children attended school. There was
primary schools throughout the country but secondary schools only
in the provincial and in some district centers. Less than one-fourth
of the population is literate. Kabul University was founded in
1946 by the incorporation of a number of faculties, the oldest of
which is the faculty of medicine, established in 1932. The University
of Nangarhar was formed in Jalalabad in 1963. Under the rules of Islamic
Republic of Afghanistan from 1992 till 1996 and Islamic Emirate Of
Afghanistan 1996 till Today the education structure have was completely
destroyed and none of theses government have tried to recover the
lose in the field of education. The education system is currently
in a very dire shape. |
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