A year ago 19 female medical students arrived in Scotland from Afghanistan to complete their studies. Today many of them attended a reception invited by UK Government Minister, Kirsty McNeill to Queen Elizabeth House in Edinburgh.

The women had to end their education in Afghanistan owing to restrictions imposed by the Taliban, but now they have completed a year of studying medicine at five Scottish universities – Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews.

The support they have received from the UK and Scottish Governments has been augmented by assistance from the trustees of the Linda Norgrove Foundation who had worked for three years on helping the students come to Scotland.

The women had been confined to their homes in Afghanistan and were unable to fulfil long held dreams o

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