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[00:00:00] in the agreement.
[00:01:00] The Islamic Sharia can be changed
[00:01:03] over time. Mufatishi Muftiy Latifullo Hakimiy
[00:02:00] returned to the country
[00:02:03] after participating in the 13th meeting
[00:02:06] of the Shungshon International Security Forum, which was held
[00:02:10] in Beijing, the capital of China.
[00:02:13] According to the Ministry of Defense, Hakimiy met with the defense
[00:02:16] ministers of China, Singapore, and Barnovi Dalulislom,
[00:02:19] as well as the commander of the Tajik military forces,
[00:02:22] and discussed various important security issues. According to
[00:02:26] the Ministry of Health,
[00:02:33] the Ministry of Health's Deputy for Health Services,
[00:02:37] Mawlawi Abdulvali Haqqani, stated
[00:02:41] at a meeting on patient safety
[00:02:44] that it is necessary to work together
[00:02:47] to manage and prevent non-communicable diseases.
[00:02:51] Haqqani stated that in order
[00:02:54] to combat these diseases, academic issues,
[00:02:57] and media
[00:03:30] cooperation should be expanded. According to
[00:03:33] the General Directorate of Imarati Companies,
[00:03:36] at this meeting, the two countries
[00:03:40] exchanged experiences and discussed the strengthening
[00:03:44] of secondary cooperation. Additionally,
[00:03:47] Gholamreza Nouri expressed his readiness
[00:03:50] to cooperate in the reconstruction of Afghan cellular
[00:03:54] networks and the construction of new cellular networks.
[00:03:57] In this regard, Mawlawi Ahmadjan Bilal
[00:04:07] Mawlawi Ahmadjan Bilal may meet with Iranian
[00:04:10] economic and development officials during this trip.
[00:04:14] The Ministry
[00:04:15] of Education
[00:04:21] announced that in the first six
[00:04:24] months of the 145th academic year,
[00:04:28] more than 133 million Afghanis
[00:04:32] were used to lay the foundation for 42 schools and madrasas,
[00:04:35] and some of these buildings have been completed.
[00:04:38] According to the Ministry officials, during this period,
[00:04:42] three religious madrasas and 157 schools
[00:04:45] were repaired and reconstructed with more than 145
[00:04:49] million Afghanis.
[00:04:55] The Ministry of Education of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
[00:04:58] laid the foundation for religious
[00:05:02] madrasas and schools at the central
[00:05:04] and provincial levels in cooperation with
[00:05:08] the Ministry of Education's partners and friends
[00:05:11] of education in the first six months
[00:05:14] of the 145th academic year. New buildings were built,
[00:05:18] and buildings were reconstructed. In the mentioned period,
[00:05:22] the foundation for 42 madrasas and schools
[00:05:25] was laid. The repair work of two madrasas
[00:05:28] and 16 schools was completed
[00:05:31] at a cost of 133.4
[00:05:33] lakh, 34,307
[00:05:35] Afghanis and put into use.
[00:05:39] Similarly, three religious madrasas
[00:05:41] and 157 schools and necessary
[00:05:44] things were repaired
[00:05:48] and reconstructed at a cost of 145
[00:05:52] million 385,17 Afghanis. The Ministry of Education
[00:05:55] is working to expand the repair and reconstruction
[00:05:58] of educational centers
[00:05:59] throughout the provinces.
[00:06:04] The Ministry of Higher Education announced that
[00:06:07] a project to improve and reconstruct the electricity
[00:06:11] network at Jawzjan University with a budget
[00:06:14] of 5 million Afghanis has started.
[00:06:17] According to the Ministry, this project includes
[00:06:20] the installation of standard electricity poles,
[00:06:23] the extension of electricity lines, and the increase of transformer
[00:06:27] capacity from 250 to 400
[00:06:33] kilowatts. According to the Ministry
[00:06:36] of Agriculture, Livestock, and Irrigation, a large check dam
[00:06:40] has been built and put into operation
[00:06:44] in Shahwalikot Poyin district of Kandahar
[00:06:47] province with a budget of 18.483
[00:06:51] thousand Afghanis. According to the Ministry,
[00:06:53] with the construction of this check dam,
[00:06:57] approximately 300
[00:07:02] hectares of agricultural land will be irrigated,
[00:07:06] and 1800 residents of this area can
[00:07:09] benefit from it. The Shahzada Saroyi
[00:07:13] Money Changers Association in Kabul is requesting
[00:07:16] the Central Bank of Afghanistan to collect old
[00:07:19] banknotes and distribute new ones
[00:07:23] in order to preserve and protect the Afghan
[00:07:26] currency. On the other hand, the Central
[00:07:30] Bank of Afghanistan announced
[00:07:38] that the process of collecting
[00:07:41] old banknotes and distributing new Afghan banknotes
[00:07:44] will begin nationwide
[00:07:47] from the 29th of the current month.
[00:07:51] The Abunasr Farrohi Customs Office in Farah
[00:07:54] province completed four construction
[00:07:58] projects
[00:07:59] at a cost
[00:08:06] of 64.4 million Afghanis and put
[00:08:10] them into operation. According to the Ministry
[00:08:13] of Finance, these hangars were built
[00:08:16] to safely store commercial goods,
[00:08:20] and each of them has a storage capacity
[00:08:23] of 8,000 tons of goods. A caravan of 70
[00:08:26] Russian tourists arrived in Panjshir.
[00:08:30] The spokesperson of Panjshir province,
[00:08:33] Sayfiddin Latun, said that the number of domestic
[00:08:37] and foreign tourists
[00:09:42] in this province has increased significantly, and
[00:09:45] a caravan of 70 Russian tourists arrived in Panjshir.
[00:09:48] According to Latun, more than 450
[00:09:52] thousand domestic tourists and more
[00:09:55] than 500 foreign
[00:09:57] tourists have visited
[00:10:03] Panjshir's natural
[00:10:19] and historical sites since the beginning
[00:10:22] of this year.
[00:10:57] The officials of Afghanistan and Turkmenistan
[00:11:01] discussed the construction of a 500-kilowatt power
[00:11:05] transmission line between the two
[00:11:08] countries.
[00:11:10] You mentioned the project that Turkmenistan
[00:11:14] is working on. There are several
[00:11:18] very important and vital projects
[00:11:22] that have been planned. One of them is the TAP project,
[00:11:55] which is Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan.
[00:11:58] The second is a large regional project
[00:12:02] that was previously discussed and agreed
[00:12:05] upon. If you remember its name,
[00:12:09] it was called TUTAP. This is the TUTAP
[00:12:12] section that connects Turkmenistan
[00:12:16] to Mazar. Its first
[00:12:19] phase has been completed, and its
[00:12:22] second phase is under construction.
[00:12:25] It will reach Herat, and the fourth
[00:12:28] section is the TAP project, which
[00:12:32] you remember is a very famous project.
[00:12:35] Fortunately, its work is ongoing.
[00:12:39] Afghanistan can produce electricity
[00:12:43] from this project. In this regard,
[00:12:46] private investment, especially from
[00:12:50] Aziz Energy Company, is very interested
[00:12:53] in investing
[00:12:56] in both electricity generation and electricity
[00:12:59] transmission from there to
[00:13:01] Kandahar and central provinces.
[00:13:05] Therefore, the agreements and understandings
[00:13:08] with Turkmenistan are very important.
[00:13:11] With these regional projects,
[00:13:14] TUTAP and TAP, Afghanistan will,
[00:13:18] God willing, prove in the region
[00:13:21] that Afghanistan is not a landlocked country,
[00:20:07] but an economic crossroads.
[00:20:10] And electricity is, of course,
[00:20:14] an electricity trade. Currently, in
[00:20:17] the international arena, if we connect to
[00:20:21] Turkmenistan's technical system,
[00:20:25] which we call synchronization,
[00:20:28] it means synchronizing
[00:20:32] the network. This is a very important
[00:20:36] need. So, you talked
[00:20:38] about the private
[00:20:44] sector in Afghanistan. What do you think
[00:20:47] is the capacity of the Afghan
[00:20:50] private sector to currently invest
[00:20:54] in Afghanistan's electricity and meet
[00:20:57] the needs of the nation?
[00:21:01] I said that if we talk about the next
[00:21:05] 5 to 10 years, especially
[00:21:08] the next 5 years, Afghanistan needs
[00:21:12] up to 10,000 megawatts of electricity.
[00:21:16] Yes, the current networks can absorb
[00:21:20] up to 5,000 megawatts. The only solution
[00:21:23] for Afghanistan's self-sufficiency
[00:21:27] is the private sector. We have
[00:21:31] experienced more than 100
[00:21:34] jobs in Afghanistan. Foreigners were here
[00:21:38] for more than 20 years.
[00:21:42] They were donors and worked.
[00:21:45] One of the reasons why we could not
[00:21:49] achieve self-sufficiency
[00:22:20] was the presence of foreign
[00:22:23] companies or banks like the World
[00:22:27] Bank and the Asian Bank. Because they did not want
[00:22:31] us to become self-sufficient.
[00:22:34] We realize now that they did
[00:22:38] not want us to become self-sufficient.
[00:22:41] The power lines and switches
[00:22:44] of the neighbors that we see now,
[00:22:48] that we were
[00:23:20] reliant on, it must have been
[00:23:24] done intentionally, not for technical
[00:23:27] reasons. We did not work on power
[00:23:31] generation networks. Therefore,
[00:23:35] the private sector can work hand
[00:23:39] in hand with the government to solve
[00:23:42] the problem of Afghanistan's electricity
[00:23:46] sector, and even Afghanistan's
[00:23:50] infrastructure problem, whether it is
[00:23:53] roads or railways. Therefore, there
[00:23:56] is potential and resources
[00:24:00] for power generation from coal, gas,
[00:24:04] and solar energy. And also, the
[00:24:08] government is committed to doing this,
[00:24:10] and investors are currently
[00:24:14] willing. Well, in this regard,
[00:24:17] with the current relations that we have
[00:25:50] with countries, instead of saying
[00:25:53] that we will achieve self-sufficiency in electricity,
[00:25:57] we will not buy your electricity
[00:26:00] and they will not help us
[00:26:04] in the current electricity sector
[00:26:07] or in technology or in project
[00:26:11] implementation, because the equipment
[00:26:15] must come to Afghanistan and be used.
[00:26:18] We must reach an understanding
[00:26:21] and gain trust that if Afghanistan
[00:26:25] becomes self-sufficient in electricity,
[00:26:28] a prosperous Afghanistan can be a good
[00:26:32] economic partner for its neighbors.
[00:26:35] Second, we can help them
[00:26:39] in electricity trade. Currently,
[00:26:43] they are investing. This initial
[00:26:47] planning must be done better
[00:26:50] by the government. Is it for the
[00:26:54] long-term benefit of the private
[00:26:57] sector that we should go
[00:27:01] and sign a TAP project with
[00:27:04] Turkmenistan in such a way that
[00:27:08] we buy electricity from them for
[00:27:11] another 20 years, or should we
[00:27:15] strengthen our private sector
[00:27:18] and have more and better investment
[00:27:22] internally? And the power
[00:27:25] line that Turkmenistan wants to build
[00:27:29] in Afghanistan should be included