Cultural and humanitarian cooperation
On October 17, 2021, during the visit of the Special Representative of the President of Kazakhstan for International Cooperation E.Kazykhan to Afghanistan, humanitarian aid in the amount of 5 thousand tons of flour (74 wagons) was transferred.
In December 2021, during the visit of Kazakhstan trade and economic delegation headed by the Minister of Trade and Integration B.Sultanov, humanitarian aid in the form of medicines (1.5 tons) was transferred to the Afghan side. In January 2022 the remaining part of humanitarian aid will be transferred to the Afghan side.
г. Mazar-e-Sharif (200 tons of rice groats, 60 tons of vegetable oil, 2 tons of pasta, 116 tons of canned meat, 30 winter tents, medicines: moxifloxacin and favipiravir).
On February 20, 2022 in the Afghan railway port of Khairaton (Balkh province) the official transfer of the next batch (5 containers, 39 tons of medicines) of Kazakh humanitarian aid to the Afghan people took place.
On August 31, 2022 in the UN logistics terminal «Termez Cargo Center» Termez (RU) an official ceremony of transfer of Kazakhstan humanitarian aid (9 wagons including food, clothes, tents, beds, etc.) to UNAMA representatives for the Afghan people affected by the earthquake in the south-eastern provinces of the country at the end of June 2022 took place.
On April 10 and 12, 2023, 81 wagons of humanitarian aid, which included food items (buckwheat, peas, oil, condensed milk, etc.), were sent to the Afghan railway station of Hairaton (Balkh province).
On April 15, 2023, during the visit of the Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Trade and Integration of the Republic of Kazakhstan S.Zhumangarin to Kabul, a batch of humanitarian aid in the form of medicines was handed over.
On October 10, 2023 in order to provide assistance as a result of a major earthquake in Herat province, a rescue team of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the number of 45 people arrived in Herat.
On October 11, 2023 in connection with the order of the President of the RK K.K.Tokayev for the victims of the earthquake in Herat province by a special airlift arrived humanitarian cargo, which included food, tents, clothes and bedding weighing more than 1600 tons.
On October 21, 2023, a shipment of Kazakhstani humanitarian aid for victims of the earthquake in Afghanistan's Herat province in the amount of 27 wagons with a total weight of 1662 tons arrived at the territory of the Afghan railway station «Hairaton» (Balkh province). The aid included rice, flour, vegetable oil, canned milk, mattresses, blankets, sheets, pillows, warm clothes, tents, underwear, pillowcases and beds.
In 2009 and 2018, agreements on educational interaction were signed, within the framework of which Afghan students, masters and doctoral students are regularly studying in the universities of Kazakhstan on the basis of the provided grants. In May 2023, the next enrollment of 30 Afghans will take place.