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3 Afghan students have written to Jawaharlal Nehru University's vice-chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar, pleading with him to make it easier for Afghan students to enrol in PhD programmes in light of their country's "deteriorating" situation. This year, the three students finished their master's degrees at the university. "It is to bring to your kind notice that we are three Afghan terminal students who have completed our masters in M.A course in 2021. Due to the recent developments in Afghanistan, we are stranded here and feel deeply concerned about our academic future and our stay in India. This comes at a time when our return to Afghanistan would be a threat to our lives," the letter read.

The 3 students told they appeared for the JNU entrance exam for PhD programmes after paying a higher application fee. "Considering the fact that there is no quota for foreign students in PhD courses, this will inevitably affect the future of Afghan students who have given entrance exams, and will be deprived of seats who can't return to their country due to the unfolding situations in Afghanistan. This might highly affect our stay in India and could risk us being forced to Afghanistan if we are not given any seats under the foreign national category," the students said in the letter.

According to a recent decision made by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Afghan terminal students who have completed their master's degrees will be provided with Ph.D. scholarships by the ICCR if they are admitted to their respective universities, the students said. They also cited the examples of other central and state universities across the country that have advanced their Afghan terminal students from the Masters to the Ph.D. programmes in collaboration with the ICCR's regional and central offices.

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