July 21, 2000
Afghan Academics Are at Risk, Pakistani Says
Hundreds of Afghan academics in exile in Pakistan are in danger of attacks from hard-line Islamic forces in Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to a statement issued this month by the Pakistani Human Rights Commission's chairman, Afrasiab Khattak.
The statement came three weeks after Pakistan deported back to Afghanistan a prominent liberal university professor, Mohammad Rahim Elham, who is a former lecturer in literature at Kabul University and a member of
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