A Pakistan court blocked on Friday an order by the country’s medical board for dozens of Afghans studying to be doctors to be expelled from colleges and universities and sent home.
“The Lahore High Court has extended the stay order preventing the expulsion of over a hundred Afghan medical students from medical colleges until the next hearing,” a Lahore court decision seen by AFP said.
The judge, Justice Khalid Ishaq, did not fix a date for the next hearing.
Earlier this month, the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) said in a letter to academic institutes that no “form of facilitation of Afghan nationals is permitted for the current academic session”.
The PMDC letter to college deans said: “Afghans previously enrolled in medical or dental programs in Pakistan are required to return to Afghanistan.”
The letter, a copy of which was seen by AFP, did not say on whose authority
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