Private Afghan University
Graduates First Female Business Students

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

May 22, 2009

KABUL -- Afghanistan's only private university has graduated its first class of female business students, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan reports.

Sixty women received diplomas from Kabul's American University of Afghanistan (AUAF), the country's first and only private university.

Ubaid Adnan Nejati, AUAF's business school director, told RFE/RL that his institution was proud to give women the opportunity to promote free enterprise.

One female student, Malalay, told Radio Free Afghanistan after the May 21 commencement that she would apply her information technology education to marketing and development.