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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