{"id":24626,"date":"2026-09-08T09:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=24626"},"modified":"2026-09-08T09:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:27:17","slug":"expulsion-of-final-year-afghan-medical-students-is-retaliatory-and-cruel-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/09\/08\/expulsion-of-final-year-afghan-medical-students-is-retaliatory-and-cruel-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Expulsion of final-year Afghan medical students is \u2018retaliatory and cruel\u2019, officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Khalid Zadran, spokesperson for the Kabul police command, has criticized Pakistan\u2019s decision to expel Afghan medical students in their final year of study, describing the move as \u201cretaliatory and cruel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post on X, Zadran said that despite the war between the United States and Iran, Iranian students had not been expelled from U.S. universities, but Pakistan\u2019s decision comes while the students are in the final year of their studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zadran criticized Pakistan\u2019s move, saying that expelling Afghan students under such circumstances was \u201cretaliatory and cruel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that such behavior was not a sign of strength and could disrupt the academic futures of students who had spent years working to complete their education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remarks come as the expulsion of Afghan migrants and students from Pakistan has drawn widespread reactions in recent months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Khalid Zadran, spokesperson for the Kabul police command, has criticized Pakistan\u2019s decision to expel Afghan medical students in their final year of study, describing the move as \u201cretaliatory and cruel.\u201d In a post on X, Zadran said that despite the war between the United States and Iran, Iranian students had not been expelled from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24628,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24626\/revisions\/24628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}