Iqbal’s statement on the proposed Afghan University, published on the 19th October, 1933.
http://www.allamaiqbal.com/webcont/196/eng-c.html
An educated Afghanistan will be the best friend of India. The building of a new University at Kabul and the development of the Peshawar Islamia Ccllege into another University on the western border of India (before partition) will very much help in the uplift of the shrewd Afghan tribes who inhabit the country that lies between our frontier and the Afghan frontier.
His Majesty the King of Afghanistan invited us to advise his Education Minister on matters connected with the proposed University at Kabul. We felt it our duty to respond to his call. It appears from the various publications emerging from Kabul that the younger generation of Afghans are thoroughly in earnest about modern knowledge, and its co-ordination with their religion and culture. The Afghans are a fine people and as Indians it is our duty to help them to advance as much as they can. There are very clear indications of the development of new consciousness in that people, and we hope we may be able to advise them on matters of education in the light of our Indian experience. Personally I believe that complete secularization of education has not produced good results anywhere especially in Muslim lands. Nor is there any absolute system of education. Each country has its own needs and its educational problems must be discussed and solved in the light of those needs.
