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PESHAWAR: Jamaat-e-Islami Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Central, president Abdul Wasi has expressed serious concern over the government’s decision to expel Afghan medical students from Pakistan, saying some medical colleges have issued notices to Afghan students.
In a statement issued here on Wednesday, he demanded immediate withdrawal of the decision.He said the authorities should not play with the future of Afghan students, particularly female students, and allow them to complete their medical education in Pakistan.
The JI leader said some Afghan female students were born and raised in Pakistan, while others had come to the country to pursue their education because of the prevailing situation in Afghanistan, particularly the restrictions imposed by the Taliban government on women’s education.
“If these students are also deprived of the opportunity to continue their education in Pakistan, their future will become bleak and there is a danger that the doors of education could be closed for an entire generation,” he added. Abdul Wasi said Pakistan had been hosting millions of Afghan refugees for several decades and had rendered selfless services to them since the beginning of the Afghan war. He warned that decisions of this nature could render all those sacrifices meaningless.
He said a large number of Afghan students were currently pursuing medical education in Pakistan, with many of them having come to the country under scholarships offered by the Government of Pakistan.
“Education is a humanitarian and constructive field and should not be sacrificed at the altar of political or diplomatic differences,” he said, adding that students who had come to Pakistan to build their future should be given an opportunity to complete their studies.
