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Progressive Afghanistan · pages 1–315


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students, which, besides being equipped with arrangements for all sorts of indoor and out-door games, possesses a fine, free and well-equipped reading-room. All the expenses are borne by the Government. Technical education to fit students for various walks of public life and different branches of industry is also fully provided for, and there is no career in which even the humblest of H. M.'s subject cannot hope to enter, equipped with a complete training entirely at state expense. A great stimulus is given to literary research and production by the establishment of a special department, Darul Talif—Bureau of Education, under qualified professors of different nationalities, helped by the Afghan graduates themselves. Due to this encouragement many journals have come into being in different cities of the country. In Kabul alone there are about half a dozen, of which "The Kabul" issued by the Anjuman-i-Adabi deserves special mention. "The Iqtisad" or the Economic Journal is another, and deals with various economic problems and provides information about home industries. In all the colleges 188

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Progressive Afghanistan, page 243. Afghanistan Digital Library, New York University Libraries. Machine-transcribed text: Afghan Press Archive, https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/243 (accessed [date]).
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