Indian Campus Helping Update Law Education In Afghanistan

New Delhi, Mar 19 (UNI) As many as 21 law teachers from Afghanistan have completed an Indian university programme intended to help the Southwest Asian nation restructure its legal education system on modern lines.

As Afghanistan tries to get back on track after decades of turmoil, professors and lecturers from Kabul, Jalalabad, Herat and Balkh universities spent past two months refreshing up on such concepts as democracy, rule of law and gender justice.

The programme has been put together by Delhi-based University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, a campus statement said.

The programme included a study, of the Constitutional, criminal, commercial, corporate, evidence, human rights, shariah, competition, consumer protection, tax, international trade and cyber laws and civil and criminal procedure codes.

Covered under Shariah were such areas as Marriage, Marriage Dissolution, Mahr, Maintenance, Inheritance, Hiba or Gift, Wasiyah or Will, Wakf or Endowment, and Islam and Democracy and Human Rights.

The participants were lectured by 55 experts, including senior advocate K K Venugopal, former Law Secretary Raghubir Singh, Maj Gen Nilendra Kumar, former Gujarat High Court Judge A S Qureshi and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal of Delhi Legal Service Authority.

Three Dari and English interpreters were engaged.

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