United Arab Emirates (UAE) ha promised to cooperate Afghanistan for changing Hamid Karzai International Airport into the Airport of Transit for Central Asia which will boost the country’s economy.

Yusouf Saif Al Ali, the UAE ambassador in Kabul on Thursday said that his country will obey by all promises made with President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani during his visit to the Emirates.

While in a meeting with President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani in Presidential Palace, Al Ali said that his country will also assist in building the House of Fatwa (religious edict) in Afghanistan.

Al Ali said that his country is working on providing scholarships for 100 Afghan students and sending 10 officials from the Ministry of Higher Education to UAE for technical studies.

Al Ali further said that 18,700 Afghan Mullahs have so far studied under his country’s program and 1,300 will join this program in future.

Afghanistan has friendly relationship with UAE and both countries are working on strengthening this relationship.