page_title: Kabul University
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Kabul University / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Original caption: "Biology class, Kabul University."
context_page_description: Kabul University is one of the major and oldest institutions of higher education in Afghanistan. It is located 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 is attended by approximately 22,000 students. Of these, nearly 43% are female students. 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.
context_section_description: The first Faculty of Medicine in Kabul, was established by a group of Turkish Professors of Medicine and Surgery led by Prof.Dr.Kamil Rifki ORGA 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. 1n 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. Kamil Rifki Orga, 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 the administrative and university community reforms of this country. 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.
  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.
  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).
caption: Biology class during the late 1950s or early 1960s.
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