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Alfalah University, Jalalabad

private University in Jalalabad, Afghanistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ48798646 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alfalah University is a private university established in 2011 in Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. It is the only accredited university in Nangarhar Province of eastern Afghanistan.

The institute quickly became one of the largest private higher education institutions in the east of Afghanistan. It was elevated to university status by the Ministry of Higher Education in 2020. The University is a hub for education, research, innovation, and public engagement; it offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees in multiple disciplines. These include courses in management, law, journalism, economics, and software Engineering at the undergraduate level, and business administration, law, and shariah at the graduate level.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Alfalah University, Jalalabad” as private University in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Alfalah, University and Jalalabad.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2011. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Alfalah, University and Jalalabad providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Alfalah University, Jalalabad”, the useful work is to connect “private University in Jalalabad, Afghanistan” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q48798646. Authority coordinates are 34.424, 70.461. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 2020.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alfalah University, Jalalabad” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.