{"id":15484,"date":"2026-06-17T17:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/17\/kazakhstan-taliban-water-research-center-kabul-university\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:10:23","slug":"kazakhstan-taliban-water-research-center-kabul-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/17\/kazakhstan-taliban-water-research-center-kabul-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan and Taliban Discuss Establishing Water Research Center at Kabul University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Higher Education has announced that Neda Mohammad Nadim, the acting head of the ministry, held an online meeting with Kazakhstan&#8217;s Minister of Science and Higher Education to discuss the development of scientific cooperation between the two countries. During the meeting, both sides emphasized expanding academic relations and strengthening scientific interactions.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release issued on Wednesday, the Kazakh Minister of Science proposed establishing a water research center at Kabul University and committed to collaborating in this field. No further details regarding the practical framework of this cooperation have been released.<\/p>\n<p>Due to Afghanistan&#8217;s geographical position and challenges related to water resource management, there is a critical need for developing specialized research in this sector. If realized, such a center could help enhance scientific capacities in water-related studies.<\/p>\n<p>This comes amid previously signed memorandums of understanding between Afghanistan and Kazakhstan in scientific and educational fields, with some cooperation already implemented. However, the Taliban&#8217;s extensive restrictions on higher education\u2014especially the ban on girls&#8217; access to universities\u2014remain a significant concern for the genuine and inclusive development of higher education in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kazakhstan and the Taliban discuss creating a water research center at Kabul University to boost scientific cooperation amid Afghanistan&#8217;s water management challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}