June 29, 2001

Refugee Professor Describes Fate of Afghan Academics; British Newspaper Tries to Rank Research Institutions

A glimpse of the harsh life of Afghan academics emerged at a human-rights conference last week in Paris.

The Network for Education and Academic Rights, which expects to be a clearinghouse for human-rights abuses against academics, was officially started last week at a two-day conference. It has begun looking at ways to work with Afghan academics in exile to pressure the Taliban regime to improve university life.

Abdul Khaleq Lalzad, a professor of thermal engineering at South

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