Articles by Nurken Alimbayev

Regional Cooperation Key to Helping Afghanistan, Says Kazakh Ambassador

In an interview with this newspaper, Omirtai Bitimov, Kazakhstan’s ambassador to Afghanistan, discussed the challenges and opportunities the current situation is presenting there and Astana’s policies in that regard. Bitimov, 63, who served in Afghanistan during Soviet times and later directed Kazakhstan’s intelligence service, brings a lot of experience to his current job, which he…