Terrorist Attack on Afghanistan’s Top School Targeted Best and Brightest
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Students fled or hid as militants stormed the American University of Afghanistan, killing 16 people.
Naqib Khpulwak, a former visiting scholar at Stanford University, had returned home to Afghanistan in 2013 to teach a new generation the importance of law in a country where large parts of it can be lawless.
“He loved Afghanistan. That’s why he didn’t stay abroad after he finished his studies. He was a very patriotic man,” said Bashir Ahmad Gwakh, a longtime friend of Mr. Khpulwak, who, like him, was a Fulbright scholar.
Such dedication cost him his life: He was among 16 people killed when terrorists attacked the American University of Afghanistan, the country’s top school, late Wednesday.
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