Over 80 Afghanish women fled to the Taliban in Oman today who faced freeze in Afghan, following Trump helping programs.
Taken with US agency for international development (USAID), suddenly their scholarships end after a fund to freeze President Donald Trump on his office back in January.
“The heart is weak,” a student speaks the BBC, who speaks unknown for fear of reprisals. “Everything was shocked and weeping. We were told to send us within two weeks.”
Since changing power nearly four years ago, Taliban imposes Draconian restrictions to women, including banning them from universities.
The US assist fund has made thousands of women in Afghanishan to study abroad or maintain online education, but many of these programs have been suspended today.
The Trump Administration’s aid freeze facing legal roads on the road but thousands of humanitarian programs around the world have been terminated by prisoners who cut billions of government expenditures.
Students in Oman say the preparations have been operated to bring it to Afghanistan, and asked the international community to “intervene immediately”.
The BBC detects emails sent by 82 students informing them that their scholars are “discontinued” because of the program’s end and use of USAID funds.
Emails – recognized the news can be “very pleasant and unbreaking” – refers to the arrangements of travel back to Afghanistan, causing students alarming.
“We need immediate protection, financial assistance and opportunities to set up a safe country where we can continue our education,” BBC told.
The media media date on USAID remains offline. The BBC is contacted at the US State Department for commentary.
Afghan women, currently faced with a forced return from Oman, seeking graduate courses and post-graduate under the endowship of women’s scholarships in 2018.
It provides scholarships for women in Afghanistan to study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (stem), disciplines forbidden for Taliban on Taliban.
More than a week ago, students were told in their scholarships.
“It’s like everything taken from me,” another student tells BBC. “This is the worst chance. I’m still in serious stress right now.”
These women, mostly aged their 20s, qualified for scholarships in 2021 before the Taliban got in Afghanistan. Many continued their studies at Afghan universities through December 2022, when Taliban was banned with higher education for women.
After 18 months in limbo, they said they fled in Pakistan in September.
USAID then facilitates their visas in Oman, where they reached between October and November 2024.
“If we’re turning us back, we will face serious consequences. It means to lose all our dreams,” as a student. “We don’t study and our families can force us to get married. Many of us can also risk because of our past relationships and activism.”
The Taliban cloted to women who protested for education and work, which had been beaten by many activists, prisoned and threatened.
Afghan women describe themselves as “dead bodies surrounding” under brutal regime policies.
The government told the Taliban tried to resolve the women’s education issue, but the decorated leaders were also defended, saying they “in accordance with Islamic Sharia Law”.
“Afghanistan experienced Gender Apartheid, with women’s systematically excluded from basic rights, including education,” as a student.
He and his friends in Oman have been able to escape fate, because scholarships should fund their education through 2028.
“When we came here, our sponsors told us not to return to Afghanistan to 2028 for vacations or visits to our families because they were not safe. And now they told us to go.
Last month, Deputy at home press Press Secretary Anna Kelly blamed women in Afghanistan in the suits under the lawsuit that inflicts the Taliban Policies in Mediaevan. “
The decision to slash the American help funds under the Trump administration, and executed the Department of Government of Government of Government of Government.
And these girls face an intense future, which quickly seeks a life line before the time of exit.
Additional Report by Aakriti Thapar