Safi says preservation of historical monuments, MoIC’s priority

KABUL (Agencies): Acting Minister of Information and Culture Hasina Safi stressed that preservation of historical monuments particularly Ghazni’s was in her ministry’s priority, adding serious steps will be taken to repair and protect them.

According to the agency, Acting Minister Safi in a meeting attended by director of Ghazni information and culture department and director of the ministry’s historical monuments department spoke about destruction of Al-Ghaznain Castle, adding it was repaired in 2013.

She added works on 11 projects of repairing and preservation of Ghazni city’s historical monuments started in 2018. This is while that recently, some parts of Al-Ghaznain Castle has collapsed, after which the social media criticized Ghazni province’s information and culture department in-charges for their inattention in this respect.

Meanwhile, acting minister of Information and Culture Hasina Safi chaired the coordinative meeting to implement the Cabinet and High Economic Commission’s approved Laws demanding increase in revenue and receiving new resources.

The meeting which was attended by a number of in charge from the related organs discussed accessing resources, new revenue opportunities and avoiding revenue wastages, the agency said.

The meeting also said the revenue team of the ministry of information and culture should work on resources and needed capacities and supports for increasing the ministry’s revenues and share the results with the ministry of finance, said the agency.

Both Acting Minister of Information and Culture and Deputy MoF expressed joint cooperation on the system-building process, the agency said.