Rahil Formuli, deputy head of vocational studies at the Ministry of Education (MoE), in an interview with TOLOnews said that up to 50,000 foreign workers are working in Afghanistan.

He said the ministry continues to help and enable Afghan youth in order to work at various organizations and companies instead of foreigners.

According to him, there are 295 vocational institutes in the country.

"We hope that in the next five years, we can change the future of vocational studies department and our young students replace the 30,000 to 50,000 Bengali, Pakistani, Iranian and other countries' workers which are working in Afghanistan," Formuli said.