November 6, 1998
In Pakistan, Afghan Academics Struggle to Maintain Universities for Refugees
Government closes all 4 institutions; human-rights activists suspect Taliban interference
Huma Sherzad remembers vividly the day the Taliban seized control of her native Kabul, the Afghan capital, and ordered all the women indoors, on penalty of death.
"They tried to convince us that they were protecting women's rights and women's dignity, but it's not true," she says of the radical Muslim militia's campaign to impose its
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