The halls were strikingly empty on the first day of the university across Afghanistan as the students wrestle with the uncertainty and bleak future
University students across Afghanistan have started returning to their classrooms for the first time since the Taliban took over the control of the country.
"Our students don't accept this and we will have to close the university," said Noor Ali Rahmani, the director of Gharjistan University in Kabul, on an almost empty campus on Monday. A member of the Taliban force stands guard at a checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan, on September 2, 2021. “Because they don’t know what their future will be”, Hussein said. "Most of them want to leave Afghanistan.
They have said women will be allowed to go to private universities under the new regime, but they face tough restrictions on their clothing and movement.
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