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**Bengal_Tiger** · 08-31-2011, 05:56 AM

Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh.

A model of the campus.

16 Afghan students in the university out of 53 who applied.

Parwana Fayyaz, a student at the university pictured with other Afghans.

From Parwana's blog:

Life has a very bottomless mystery in term of the places that we are living with our original identities, and with these identities we are beckoning our ways to end this exhausted but shortened journey by traveling on a broken ship in the vast with lots corrugated ocean of this desert.
Life enforces us for sleeping under the shade of a green tree like a satisfied silkworm, which feeds itself with a fallen and useless leaf of the tree.
Life takes us to the highest peak of the mountains, where we find ourselves a striking, blissful, liberated, determined, and watchful butterfly.
Two years before, I was like this silkworm which was depended on the tree’s leaves, which was busy whole nights and days for knitting its silk with its unique skills.
Now, I am that watchful butterfly, who is looking for her better life by getting my citizenship at AUW and now I have gotten the thought of my personal and professional identity from this territory.
I was Parwana, now I am Parwana Fayyaz. I am from Ghazni Province ‘the Home of the Taliban’ on the central curve of Afghans’ land. I am an international university student who has flown toward high mountains from an unwitting angle toward everything.
Now, I am a self-governing woman with my two true wings in the wide and full of star sky of my life, where my wisdom is brighter than the burning and lightening sun of the universe. In this place, my education is the gloomy nice moon and the glimmer and dazzling stars of my life.
Indeed, I am from Islam faith with my Afghani culture; I practice my Islamic life by being an Afghan Muslim girl, who had to wear Borqa for two years. Now, I am practicing this heavenly trust by keeping of a small cloth on my head, and worshiping of Allah and sending of my full respects and honors to his messengers and followers.
Honestly, I can’t distinguish between white and black colors, I don’t know the secret of nights and days passing in everyday of life, and I don’t care about rainy, snowy, sunny, and burning days.
I am pleased that I am not anymore among the Afghan women, who are experiencing every kind of misery in everyday life.
But I am worried and distracted that I am not besides them who kill themselves by throwing oil soil on themselves and burn their entire life’s pieces by lighting of a lighter.
Luckily, I am not any longer witness of dead bodies of those young and old men and women, and babies, able and disable, and rich and bigger on the road without head, hand, and leg dancing in the red ocean, who had relaxed in peace without farewell with their families.
However, I always had the fear of revealing of my life’s secret in a society where no one could feel, know, and help me that who was I?
In reality, I do adore my family members more than the only sun of the only sky of the only universe.
Since I am in this land, there is always something sparking in my mind with lots of joy and hope because I am glad, blissful, and grateful. The gloomy days of my life has change, when I changed the dark curtain of my own wisdom into a bright and white color.
I can go toward white, pink, and yellow flying butterflies by opening my own wings, I feel the pure wind of the honest morning touching my whole body with lots of joy, and I can say the words of my mind and heart because I am not anymore in the cage. I am free.
So, I have only one identity that I am a free creature.

Another of her blogs:

Indubitable, you are only sand in the huge ocean of this land, which is an unfamiliar world. Your life is full of gloom and glee. In some ways, you also may crack up like Fitzgerald, who cracked up in his early age. You may also own Nobel Peace Prize like the winners and owners who have owned it before you.
Once you were a new born baby, who had place in everyone’s heart. Once you were a new white and chrisom, soft and smooth blossom on the green and promising tree of your parents. Your two shinny eyes were the gate of their heaven, and your first words brought for them a message from the heaven.
Alongside your falling, your parents also fell down. They took your weak hands softly, they called you softly not by your name but by sweet and honey names.
They have been caring and loving you since you were only a green plant without any leaves and root. They gave you root, then water, and then nurture you by lovely talking and smiley face.
They granted you the most adorable moments, when you were out of good health. They cried for your pain and forgot their own relationship with themselves for your relationship.
However, it is you that in return give them back the terminally pain and illness to their lives, when you beckon your path with hate, joylessly, violent, and immorality with yourselves.
If you are very near to their heart then you will be able to find the seeds of bitterly sadness amongst the pearl beads on their lips. Otherwise, these bitterly seeds will grow their own plant inside. As a result, you will lose the tree or they will lose their blossom of the tree.
It was 4rd August 2010, I was laughing and joking with my little sister, a voice came to me,
“You are happy, joyful, and proud of your own being in this wasteland, you are alive.”
“But, still you are a girl; try to beckon each path of your true potential for being alive.”
“After you reach to your truthiness of desire you will learn how to live.” A mother said with lots of joy and hope, who was sitting beside me since I was sitting there on a carpet at the Women Clinic in a corner of Kabul City.
“Tashkoor, Thanks
The mother said,
“My daughter is pregnant, she is very weak and her baby is not in its right position, if Allah wants, next month she will have her baby on her hands, Enshallah.”
She asked, How about you? Why you are here?
Man yah mahseel astam dar khareg tahsel mekonam” “I am a student, and I am studying abroad.I came here with my mother, she is also pregnant.”
“Good,” she responded.
She found me a listener; so, she told me her life story.
In 2006, while the northern and some central parts of Afghan lands were secured by the Taliban, a family was being secured by the US Armies in Kabul. They had a middle class life, the father was a driver, and the mother was a cook, but in somebody else home. The two brothers and three sisters were the blossoms of a tree; they were very depressed of being rooted from the tree. The first boy was not anymore a blossom while he became eighteen years old now, the father said. Now he was parted from the tree, he got the job of a careless driver. He was the connector of Kabul, Mazar-i- Sharif, Qandahar, and Ghazni roads for six months. After the brother found his destiny on the roads, the eldest sister was also cut off from her childhood tree before becoming a fruit or flower of the tree.
Nargis, she, has got married with a 36 years old man while she was only sixteen. The brother was accustomed to drugs, and never come back from Mazar i Sharif way for visiting his childhood tree in a bitterly winter.
He is dead, No…he is coming, or maybe he is sleeping under Kotal Salank “Salank Bridge” the father is saying.He blamed himself for Rahmat’s missing head. He has ‘cracked up’; the tree is no more a tree. The father never says that Rahmat was filled with abhorrence of himself for not being able to change his life. Rahmat killed himself with opium, or he was killed by a person. Maybe his car took him to a region of wolves. Maybe his inside hate for his father called him to the final line of life. He hated his father, the mother says.
His joyless life joined him to the jungle of harsh and pain. He has gone alone without informing others forever, his father is waiting for his dead body till now. We haven’t found him, the mother says with cry and pain. My eyes didn’t show up their tears, maybe because I was angry on Rahmat for his ignorant. However, I felt frozen inside while I saw Nargis’ beauty in her silence pain.
Nargis is only twenty years old now; her eyes are watching you, while you will find yourselves into the mirror. She has forgotten the striking words of her mouth because of her physical and inner pain. She looks you but never asks you.
I love Nargis because she tells and shows you how worthy is your life.

**Bengal_Tiger** · 08-31-2011, 06:24 AM

Another Afghan student at the university.

Another Afghan student (second from right), who like Parwana is also from Ghazni, Farida Royesh.

From Farida's blog:

The Veil

What do I want from this life?
Only a mirrorr
to ask the name of my rescuer

What do I want from this life?
Only a hand,
to tear the veil from my heart
and, show it the mirror.
Show it the mirror,
and exclaim:
”Anyone you are, just rise up”
“rise up from the back of the veil”!
Don’t read from the paper,
Wake up from dream,
Tear up the veil from your name,
and see the heart of purity.
Once I wished,
Once I wished, I would live as who I am
not an actor behind the veil.
Once I wished, I would have a mirror
to ask the name of my rescuer
I would have a hand
to tear the veil from my heart
Once I wished I would breath for my own.

Video of Farida speaking:

Introducing Farida - YouTube

Haneen from Palestine speaking.

Introducing Haneen - YouTube

(Wa lakin hadhal video bil arabee...bas annaha tatakallam al fushaa bi shaklin jayyid)

Though I strongly believe in women's rights and female education I have to say I am not completely sure of the AUW's liberal ideology. However female education is something extremely important and it is people like Parwana, Farida, Haneen and others who can contribute to promoting women's rights within an Islamic framework.

Shahid Hajji Malik as-Shabazz (rahmatullahi alaih) a.k.a. "Malcolm X":

"To educate a man is to educate an individual, to educate a woman is to educate a nation."

**AFG21** · 09-01-2011, 09:13 AM

thanx for posting I really hoope those girls will come back to Afghanistan and help our country.

**Dinosaur Khan** · 09-01-2011, 09:38 AM

Scholarships for Afghan students

Scholarships for Afghans announced
Peshawar: Different universities in the provincial metropolis Monday announced scholarships for the Afghan students and scholars to facilitate their higher studies.
A delegations of heads of various universities from Afghanistan visited different varsities and degree awarding institutes including the University of Peshawar and University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Peshawar.
The visit has been organized by the German foundation, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. Separate memorandums of understanding were signed with the management of both the universities for awarding scholarships to the Afghan students and scholars.
As per the MoUs, the University of Peshawar would grant admission to 48 Afghan students for accomplishing master’s degree and six scholars for doing MPhil and PhD in the coming academic year. Among them 24 master’s level students would be given fully-funded scholarships. All six MPhil or PhD students would also be granted fully-funded scholarship.
The UET Peshawar, on the other hand, offered five postgraduate scholarships to the faculty members of Afghan universities each year. The joint declaration issued on the occasion of the delegation’s visit to the University of Peshawar (UoP) read that the students who don’t come under the fully-funded scholarships would be charged fee equivalent to Pakistani students and they would not be considered foreign students.
The 17-members delegation led by the Chancellor of Kabul University Prof Hamidullah Amin during a visit to the UoP was given presentation about higher education in Pakistan at the Area Study Centre. Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Azmat Hayat Khan welcomed the delegation. He said presently UoP was hosting over 70 Afghan students. “We are ready to train the faculty of Afghan universities to build their capacity up to the global standards,” he said.
Dr Azmat Hayat said the UoP could also offer services to the Afghan universities in refining their courses of studies and curricula. He said the UoP was the nearest possible foreign venue for higher education for the Afghan students.
“They must come here to benefit from the faculty and the state-of-the-art laboratories like centralized resource laboratory,” he remarked.
Chancellor of the Kabul University Prof Hamidullah Amin said that Afghanistan was in the rebuilding phase and Pakistan could be of great help the Afghans to regain past glory. “Afghanistan in the last 30 years has faced severe hardships and it is high time for our neighbours to help the Afghans in their respective domains so that our children could live a better life,” he argued.
He said the Kabul University established in 1929 was the oldest institution in Afghanistan. “Due to war, the university lost its tremendous collection of books and research work. Much of the research work was lost or looted. Before the war, Kabul University had full-fledged 15 faculties and 74 departments,” he explained.
Prof Hamidullah Amin said the university wasn’t working up to its potential due to lack of skilled and qualified faculty. He added that most of the faculty members had been killed or left for other countries during the long drawn war in Afghanistan. The chancellor informed that currently 25 universities were working in the public and 33 in the private sector with a total enrolment of 100,000 students in Afghanistan.
During the delegation’s visit to the UET, Vice-Chancellor Imtiaz Gilani told the guests that around 30 students from Afghanistan were getting world-class engineering education in various disciplines at the university.
http://pakedu.net/pakistani-educatio...ghan-students/

**Dinosaur Khan** · 09-01-2011, 09:39 AM

Pak okays quota for 2000 Afghan students

Pak okays quota for 2000 Afghan students

PESHAWAR - To support Afghans in the fields of education and health, the Government of Pakistan has approved quota for 2000 Afghan students in the educational institutes across the country.
According to the Ministry of SAFRON sources, the government announced to issue visas to Afghans within 24 hours for travelling to Pakistan for medical treatment.
It has also been announced that work permits will be given to those Afghan nationals staying in Pakistan illegally.
Under the quota for Afghan students, they will be given admissions to schools, colleges and universities respectively in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as well as other provinces of Pakistan from the next year.
In this connection, the government has already issued the instructions to the educational institutes across the country.
The government has also started collecting details of millions of Afghans who either are staying illegally in Pakistan or voluntarily accepted to go back to their homeland. According to a rough estimate, about 1.7 million Afghans are being issued biometric Proof of Registration (PoR) cards by National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) whereas the cards issued earlier will be renewed and the process will be completed by 2012 after which the repatriation of Afghans will be started, according to sources.
About 85,000 Afghans have been repatriated to their country till July 21,
whereas the remaining those whose registration has not been done will be registered as per order of the government.
Meanwhile to promote healthy activities among the youth as a measure to stop the activities of terrorism, the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been asked to implement two percent sports quota in the educational institutes of the province in accordance with the orders of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani.
The directives have been issued from the Prime Minster’s Secretariat following a report stating that until now the sports quota has not been implemented in the educational institutes of the country.
However, when this scribe contacted the education department officials in this regard, they argued that no formal official announcement had been made for its implementation

**Dinosaur Khan** · 09-01-2011, 09:42 AM

PAKISTAN: 1,000 scholarships for Afghan students

PAKISTAN: 1,000 scholarships for Afghan students 03 May 2009
Issue: 0074

Pakistan has offered 1,000 scholarships to Afghan students to study in the country in almost all disciplines, writes Asim Hussain for The Daily Mail. Under the phased programme, as many as 200 Afghan students will join Pakistani universities this year. The first batch of students will be admitted in September at the start of the academic year.

The scholarship decision was made at a meeting late last month between an Afghan delegation led by Mohammad Saddique Patman, Deputy Minister for Education, and a Pakistani team led by Professor Dr Mukhtar Ahmed, Member (Operations and Planning) of the Higher Education Commission, and including senior officials at the Commission, Ministry of Education, Planning Commission and Foreign Office.

The scholarships will be offered in almost all disciplines with a particular focus on engineering, medicine and agriculture as desired by the Afghan delegation. Other important areas include pharmacy, computer science, social sciences, business education and language studies. The countries will also collaborate on faculty development and student exchange, joint research programmes, distance education and institutional linkage programmes.
Full report on The Daily Mail site

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