 Welcome to WSIS Forum 2018. I am delighted to be joined by Mr Shazad Ariyobi, Minister of Communications and Information Technologies in Afghanistan. Sir, thank you for joining us. Welcome. Thank you for inviting me for the interview. You're very welcome. So, what can you tell us about the role of ICTs in Afghanistan to enhance inclusion, career prospects, basically deliver the SDGs? Okay, thank you. In the last 15 years, we have a huge progress in the ICT sectors. We have six operators operating in Afghanistan. We have 23 million active subscribers using mobile services. And 8 million people have access to the internet. And this is something the people, the new generation, very active in the social media. They are doing campaign and they are participating in the competitions. Even they are more active in the civil society activists. They are using this new technology in ICT for their competition, for their exam, and they are also more active in developing applications. This is something we are working in the ICT sector to how we can improve our public services as well for the people. This is something we established a new entity at Skala San Khidma to bring all the public services under one roof and to pay the way for the East services. Besides that, we have 4,000 and 100 kilometers of fiber aftics laid throughout the 25 provinces. And we are working for 1,000 more kilometers in the next two years to connect throughout the country. We are connected with almost all our neighbor countries, Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan. As Pakistan recently, we have signed an MOU with the China government to bring fiber aftics through a Khan corridor. And this will open the way, we will connect with the submarine internet, which will be very huge impact in the country and the call and even in the internet services. But still people are not happy with the internet quality. The price is very high and it is not available everywhere. And some people are not familiar how to use it internet and what is the benefit of the internet. This is some kind of challenges still we are facing everywhere in the country. But still we are have like the future that we need to work is responsible of the government. We need to work. We need to facilitate for all over the people to connect all the university schools. And also we need to provide the ICT services to the schools. We need to work in the education, telemedicine. And this is something our future programs. And recently we have established a five-year policy, ICT policy. And for that policy we have working to develop a implementation roadmap and the strategy that one how we can how we can how like after five years a digital Afghanistan. This is something we're working hardly in the ICT sector. But I am recently appointed a new minister. I have a lot of challenges and and but the good thing is we have a very hard human resources how we can bring them together to make it happen. So you have achieved a lot of progress but there's still a lot of work left to do. So is that why it's important for you to be at WSIS Forum? Yes, this is something very important event where which I came here and I joined these people and here a lot of new things and especially in the networking which we we have established with the international community with the expert, with the people, with the professionals. This was a good thing we need to learn from them and we need to implement it in our country. This was like one of the best event and every year bringing all the related and all the expert from the through of the world and together and they are meeting to each other and sharing their knowledge experience. This is something like we appreciate the ITU and for making this happen this event. Mr. Aryobi, thank you very much. You are most welcome.