{"id":22246,"date":"2026-09-20T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/20\/taliban-information-culture-academy-of-sciences-cooperation\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:46:10","slug":"taliban-information-culture-academy-of-sciences-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/20\/taliban-information-culture-academy-of-sciences-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Calls for Expanded Cooperation Between Information and Culture Ministry and Academy of Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration said officials from its Ministry of Information and Culture have discussed expanding scientific and cultural cooperation with the head of the Afghanistan Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement released by the state-run Bakhtar News Agency, Sheikh Abdul Rahman Tayyibi, the deputy minister for culture and arts at the Taliban-run Ministry of Information and Culture, met today with Sheikh-ul-Hadith Mawlawi Faridun Mahmood, the director general of the Afghanistan Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban administration said the meeting covered coordination and cooperation on development, sharing scientific views and experience, strengthening ties between the Ministry of Information and Culture and the Afghanistan Academy of Sciences, and continuing joint cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban administration did not release further details on the timetable, practical framework for this cooperation, or any specific outcome of the talks. The Afghanistan Academy of Sciences is a national scientific body active in research and academic fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban officials discuss expanding scientific and cultural cooperation with the Afghanistan Academy of Sciences, according to a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22246","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=22246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}