Want freedom of education in Taliban regime, say Afghanistan students

Many on AU campus urge India to extend visas, fund their studies

At a time when their future looks uncertain, they have not lost their identity and resolve and say that they are proud Afghanis first and their ethnicity and others things follow later.

“We want the people across the globe to recognise us as people from Afghanistan and not be identified as Tajiks, Uzbeks or Pashtoons. We oppose what the Taliban is trying to do by discriminating us by our ethnic origin,” says Abeedullah Aabedi, who is pursuing his PG in law at Andhra University. He hails from Nuristan province of Afghanistan and like him there are about 130 students from different parts of the strife-torn nation, including about 25 women, on the campus pursuing different courses.