Afghanistan Signs Agreement to Send Students to Pakistan

In a small ceremony that belied the significance of the event, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Pakistan on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding with an elite Pakistani university to send Afghan students to study on its campus in Lahore. This means that for the first time, Afghanistan will be using public funds to support its students' higher education abroad, and the choice of the host country, Pakistan, reflects the shift in Kabul's often-fraught relations with its eastern...

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