October 19, 2001
A University in Pakistan Struggles to Educate Refugees From Afghanistan
Students and professors find some freedom, but are still watched by Taliban leaders
In this rough-and-tumble Pakistani city, just a few dusty and windblown miles from the rugged Khyber Pass -- the great mountainous gateway to Afghanistan -- a single destitute university is the only hope more than 2.5 million Afghan refugees have of higher education.
Afghan University sits here on two makeshift campuses -- one for men and one for women. The campuses -- a former guesthouse for the
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