Students at Laghman University have raised major concerns regarding rapidly deteriorating living conditions on campus, citing acute shortages of basic utilities, substandard food quality, and severe administrative abuse by regional morality police officers.
According to resident accounts, the overall academic environment has become severely compromised, forcing numerous male undergraduates to abandon their degree programs due to persistent intimidation and systemic logistical failures.
Arbitrary Enforcement and Deprivation of Services
Students specifically named the regional director of the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, identified as Mullah Dilawar, as the primary source of mistreatment across campus facilities:
- Confiscation of Identification: Morality inspectors routinely seize students’ official dormitory identification cards under minor administrative or behavioral pretexts.
- Punitive Meal Restrictions: Deprived of their dormitory cards, affected students report being systematically denied access to the university dining hall, with food service withheld for two to three days at a time.
- Faculty and Student Harassment: According to eyewitnesses, virtue enforcement personnel maintain an aggressive presence across halls and classrooms, publicly humiliating both students and teaching staff.
Operational Deficits and Unpaid Stipends
Beyond systemic harassment, residents of the Laghman University dormitories are grappling with critical resource shortages that severely impact daily health and hygiene:
- Infrastructure Failures: Students report chronic water shortages across residential quarters alongside low-grade, inadequate meal provisions in official cafeterias.
- Stipend Delays: Undergraduates are demanding the immediate and timely disbursement of their monthly government stipends, which have faced prolonged delays, leaving low-income students unable to afford essential academic supplies or supplemental meals.
Students remaining on campus describe widespread hopelessness, warning that unless central higher education authorities intervene to curb unauthorized morality enforcement and restore basic living standards, dropout rates across Laghman University will continue to escalate.