{"id":22564,"date":"2026-09-24T11:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/24\/peshawar-court-blocks-expulsion-of-17-afghan-doctors-from-hospitals\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:33:17","slug":"peshawar-court-blocks-expulsion-of-17-afghan-doctors-from-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/24\/peshawar-court-blocks-expulsion-of-17-afghan-doctors-from-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Peshawar court blocks expulsion of 17 Afghan doctors from hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pakistani media outlet has reported that the Peshawar High Court has stopped the expulsion of 17 Afghan doctors who are undergoing specialist training at various hospitals in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the doctors were legally admitted to specialist programmes through a special quota for Afghan citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The move came after Pakistan&#8217;s medical and dental council issued notices cancelling their continued studies and ordered them to return to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Peshawar is the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northwestern Pakistan, and a number of Afghan students and professionals have gone to the province in recent years for higher and specialist training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar High Court blocks the expulsion of 17 Afghan doctors enrolled in specialist training at hospitals in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22564","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=22564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}