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Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

, status = , headquarters = , coordinates = , motto = , employees = , budget = , minister_type = , minister1_name = , minister1_pfo = , minister2_name = , minister2_pfo = , deputyminister_type = , deputyminister1_name = , deputyminister1_pfo = , deputyminister2_name = , deputyminister2_pfo = , chief1_name = Shaykh-ul-Hadith Farid-ud-Din Mahmood , chief1_position = President , chief2_name = , chief2_position = , parent_department = , parent_agency = , parent_agency_type = , child1_agency = , child2_agency = , keydocument1 = , website = , agency_id = , map = , map_size = , map_caption = , map_alt = , footnotes = , embed = The Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan (ASA) ( fa, آکادمی علوم افغانستان, translit=akademi elom afghanistan, ps, د علومو اکاډمي نښه) is the official government agency of

that regulates the

Pashto Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani (). Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languages ...

and

Dari Persian Dari (, , ), also known as Dari Persian (, ), is the Variety (linguistics), variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan. Dari is the term officially recognised and promoted since 1964 by the Politics of Afghanistan, Afghan government ...

languages spoken in Afghanistan. It also works with

Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

and

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

's official government agencies to regulate literature. The Academy was founded in 1978 by Dr. Gul Mohammed Noorzai, a historian, writer, and linguist as a result of the merging of older academic associations. The Academy has more than 300 research fellows, divided into three main groups:

social science Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soc ...

natural sciences Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer review and repeatab ...

, and

Islamic studies Islamic studies refers to the academic study of Islam, and generally to academic multidisciplinary "studies" programs—programs similar to others that focus on the history, texts and theologies of other religious traditions, such as Easter ...

. During years of

civil war A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...

many research institutes in Afghanistan have been destroyed. The ASA building as well lacks adequate infrastructure, laboratories, equipment and libraries.

President

* Abdul Bari Rashid, PHD (2002 - 2013] * Abdul Zahir Shakib, PhD (? - ?) *

Abdul Shakoor Rashad Professor Abdul Shakoor Rashad ( ps, عبدالشکور رشاد) was born on November 14, 1921, in Kandahar city, Afghanistan. Early life Abdul Shakoor Rashad graduated from school at the age of 12 in 1933. While he was only 13 years old, he w ...

(? - 2021) * Farid-ud-Din Mahmood, Shaykh-ul-Hadith (November 2021 - Present)

Members

, Professor (? - 2021)

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President

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