Disappointed Ghazni youth quit universities after Taliban takeover

GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): Some youth in southern Ghazni province have stopped attending universities and quit their higher education at half stage.

Most of these youth were students of private university who also had jobs. They now not only lost their jobs but stopped going to universities.

Samiullah, 34, said after the Taliban took over he lost his job and stopped going to university.

He said: “I was working in an NGO here, my job helped me support my family as well as I paid my university fee. Now that I lost my job I could not support my family nor could I pay my fee.”

Aminullah, a student of private university, said most of his fellow stopped going to universities and majority has left the country.

He said he is in contact with his three friends who are in Iran, they conveyed to him that they will not return to the country until situation improves.

Aminullah said his friends worked in different organizations and also had good jobs.

Noorul Haq is another youth who served in police in the previous government and went to a private university in his part time.

He said all his dreams are derailed and his only wish was to stay alive and earn alimony to his children.

Hamdullah, a private university teacher, in Ghazni said there was a drastic decline in the number of private universities students and the reason was public disappointment and economic issues.

He said in the previous regime there were some opportunities for youth despite conflict and violence and they had a chance to continue higher education.

After the Taliban take over, he said, situation had changed and majority youth lost their jobs.

Hamdullah asked the Taliban to give priority to higher education and professionalism and appoint qualified and deserving individuals on different positions.

Mawlavi Abdul Basir Hanafi, higher education affairs in-charge in Ghazni, said he did not received complaints that youth have quit their studies. He said if such problems are noticed efforts would be made for its resolution.

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