Shazia felt a knot in her stomach as news that the Taliban had been swept to Kabul.
He sat with him Afghani Flatmate Shekaba and the picture witnessed Unfold their people returned to racing houses on the asphalt and jostling to take a plane to leave the country.
Sitting in an apartment in Pune-which was home to hundreds of Afghanistan students Shazia and Shekaba did not know whether to feel lucky because it was far from atrocities going back home.
“My mother is a housewife and sister study in the ninth grade.
The Taliban announced that no woman had to step out unless accompanied by men.
I don’t have my father and my brother in Kabul.
I don’t know what to do – whether to pursue my dream of learning more while leaving my own mother and sister or if I have to go back, “said 21-year-old from Mazar-I-Sharif, the first girl in her family to go to school and Take a leap to a foreign country to pursue a bachelor’s degree in computer applications.
For the Afghan student community, especially girls such as Shazia and Shekaba, the Taliban takeover is a frightening reminder of the time when women were rejected by education, forced to wear a burqa, it was forbidden to leave the house without a guardian and push into sexual slavery under the wedding bondage.
“We do not believe the Taliban guarantee.
History shows they don’t want girls to learn or work.
All Afghan girls in India are worried about their future and wondering if there are rules will stop them.
If not, I will not return.
I will ask other countries to do something for us.
” He was afraid of echoes, among others, registered in college in Bengaluru, Pune, Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Mumbai.
According to the Indian Survey of Higher Education Aishe Report 2019-20, India recorded 4504 student admissions from Afghanistan, the highest stream of both students from any country to India.
Low cost of living, 1,000 annual scholarships from ICCR, it is easy to get a visa and similarity of culture has been withdrawn by Afghanistan.
Their biggest concentration is in Pune which currently has around 1,500 scholars and postgraduate students and PhD scholars from various provinces.
Many of them at the end of their program are now seeking help to extend their visa.
“Returning to Afghanistan means the death and destruction of every dream I have worked towards the last eight years,” said Safoora 26 years (the name was changed), studied in Bengaluru.
Safoora cousin, who worked with the government had recently been overthrown, had been lost for the past two days.
Safoora was afraid he would also be on the Taliban hit list if he returned.
Many are divided between thinking for their own safety and concern for their families back home; Their visa was set to end and the parents asked them to stay back in India.
Nadeem (the name was changed), pursuing an MBA degree in Bengaluru, called by his parents with many doubts on Monday.
“Son, we are safe, we are at home but you don’t come to Afghanistan” they said to him a lot of relief.
“Alhamdulillah the internet and the phone still works.” But anxiety about what will happen next is bearing him.
“What I can do now is pray that the Taliban will not harm civilians.” For first-generation students such as Shukrallah Ahamadi at Pune who hoped to get rid of his family from poverty and desperate they had seen, the Taliban takeover had raised frightening consequences.
“My old brothers must drop out and take part time work to support my family.
Because I am good at study I got an ICCR scholarship to study in India.
I have planned to finish my MBA, return home, get a good job and give my mother and a better brother of life.
My education is their hope for a better future and now it’s all broken.
All of us hope and pray is that the Indian government allows Afghani students to live in the country for at least two years after our course finished.
There is nothing we can do in the Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban with an MBA degree, “he regretted.
In a more optimistic record, the Minister of Protocol Aaditya Thackeray met 11 Afghan students in Mumbai on Tuesday and convinced them from their safety in Maharashtra.
He said the state would coordinate with the ministry of external affairs to sort out their visa status.
The JNU Union students have also written a letter to the vice chancellor to facilitate the return of Afghan students to campus and provide permits needed and hostel accommodation, especially for female students.
More than 4,500 Afghan students on the Indian campus held breath
