Afghans for Progressive Thinking (APT) organized Herat Intervarsity Debate Tournament at Ghalib University-Herat, on 10 April 2016. Around 90 debaters, adjudicators and observes from different universities and higher education institutes including Ghalib University, Herat University, Jami University and AUAF-Herat along with participants from Asia and Kahkashan Institutes of Higher Education attended. Throughout the day, students competed in three preliminary and two knockout rounds of debate as a result of which the team consisted of Mahmood Karamatey and Hamid Hakimi from Ghalib University emerged as champions whilst Ms. Farida Sepehr from Herat University won the Best Speaker title of the tournament.