{"id":22188,"date":"2026-09-20T11:07:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/20\/dawat-university-kabul-shuts-down-taliban-interference\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:07:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:07:36","slug":"dawat-university-kabul-shuts-down-taliban-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/20\/dawat-university-kabul-shuts-down-taliban-interference\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabul&#8217;s Dawat University shuts down in protest at Taliban interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dawat University, a private university in Kabul, has suspended all its academic, educational and administrative activities in response to the Taliban-run Ministry of Higher Education&#8217;s appointment of a new leadership board.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Saturday, September 28, the university said the board appointed by the Taliban administration had been introduced without the approval of the university&#8217;s administration and founders, and was not legitimate in the eyes of the institution. According to the statement, the university&#8217;s activities will remain suspended from September 29, 1405, until its legal status is clarified.<\/p>\n<p>The statement from Dawat University said the Taliban administration had seized control of the institution and appointed a new leadership board for it \u201cwithout providing any justified religious, legal or administrative reason\u201d and without the consent of the administration and founders. University officials have condemned the move.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban-run Ministry of Higher Education has so far said nothing about the reason for appointing a new leadership board for Dawat University or why this decision was made.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the Taliban had also halted the activities of the private Khatam al-Nabiyyin University. Dawat University is one of the private higher education institutions in Kabul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawat University in Kabul has suspended all activities after the Taliban appointed a new leadership board without approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}