{"id":21828,"date":"2026-09-14T17:50:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/14\/taliban-kazakhstan-sports-cooperation-ambassador-kabul\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T17:50:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:50:36","slug":"taliban-kazakhstan-sports-cooperation-ambassador-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/14\/taliban-kazakhstan-sports-cooperation-ambassador-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban administration says it discussed sports cooperation with Kazakhstan ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration says sports officials met with Kazakhstan\u2019s ambassador in Kabul to discuss sports cooperation between the two countries, including joint training sessions and the holding of friendly competitions.<\/p>\n<p>According to the information released, the meeting took place between the head of the Taliban administration\u2019s General Directorate of Olympic, Physical Education and Sports and Kazakhstan\u2019s ambassador, Ghaziz Akbasov. The Taliban administration said the two sides discussed expanding cooperation in the sports sector.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban administration also said the Kazakh ambassador expressed readiness for further cooperation and invited Afghan athletes to travel to Kazakhstan to take part in training programmes and friendly competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The National Olympic Committee, Physical Education and Sports is among the bodies responsible for organising sports activities in Afghanistan. In recent years, Kazakhstan has also hosted training programmes and regional competitions in some sports sectors in Central Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban officials discussed sports cooperation with Kazakhstan\u2019s ambassador in Kabul, including joint training and friendly competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21828","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=21828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}