14 minutes agoTaliban ban Afghan students leaving the country to study in Dubai
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(3 years ago)After the Taliban closed up universities for women, my only hope was to get a scholarship that would help me study abroad”, says 20-year-old Afghan student Natkai. (Natkai's name has been changed for her safety), writes BBC. The Taliban have severely hit women who oppose them. Natkai says he has continued to study [...]
After the Taliban closed up universities for women, my only hope was to get a scholarship that would help me study abroad”, says 20-year-old Afghan student Natkai.
(Natkai's name has been changed for her safety), writes BBC.
The Taliban have severely hit women who oppose them.
Natkai says that she has continued to study even though she had little chance of attending university in her homeland.
Afterwards, a scholarship was given to study at the University of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (United Arab Emirates) by billionaire businessman Sheik Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor.
Stocks for Afghan women were announced in December 2022 after the Taliban banned women from the university.
The BBC finds that a total of 100 Afghan women have been successful in receiving these scholarships. Several Afghan students living abroad have already travelled to Dubai.
On Wednesday, July 23, Natkai said goodbye to her family and left for the airport.
But her hopes were quickly extinguished.
When Taliban officials saw tickets and student visas, the girls said they were not allowed to leave Afghanistan with student visas”, she said in a desperate voice.
Natkai is one of at least 60 girls who returned from the airport.
The BBC's first photos show young girls dressed in black hyjabs or headscarves, standing near their luggage in shock and destruction.
The Taliban have forbidden women to travel alone and allow them to go abroad alone with their husbands or a male companion like brother, uncle or father, known as male mahram- gentile. /Periscopi/
