From Islamic Republic News Agency:
The director of Afghanistan\’s National Library, Fazlollah Qodsi, said that no new Persian books have been added to the library for the past 20 years. Qodsi told IRNA that despite being in position to add new specialized books to the library, it is unfortunately short of any training facilities and that the entire number of its medical books is just limited to 19 volumes.
He added that around 80,000 books have been lost in the course of Afghanistan\’s civil war under the Taliban rule. According to Qodsi, a great number of the library\’s books are missing as a consequence of the ideological approaches of various governments ruling Afghanistan in the past, such as setting fire on anti-Marxist books by communists and burning books on marxism by the Mujahedin.
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