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Capital Kabul
Population35. 53 million (2017)
Presidents Ashraf Ghani
Currency Afghan afghani
Official_languagesPashto
Dari
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Captains Farshad Noor
Head coach Ashley Westwood
Arena stadium Ghazi Stadium
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The Afghanistan national football team is the national football team of Afghanistan and is controlled by the Afghanistan Football Federation. Founded in 1922, they played their first international game against Iran in Kabul, 1941.

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diplomats of More Than £116m to Transport for London for unpaid congestion charges, has revealed The Foreign Office .

The US Embassy owes the largest amount to almost £12. 5m, while The Embassy of Japan owes about £8. 5m.

The Diplomats also debts of More Than £200,000 in unpaid fines, with the Nigeria High Commission on the basis of about £47,000.

said Foreign Minister Dominic Raab , the government had held meetings with the messages "press for payment."

The figures for the City-toll fee, which for most of the vehicles travelling in Central London , which goes towards more investment in Public Transport - dates between 2003 and 2018 with a Total sum of £116,868,825 outstanding messages.

The ticket date, from 2018, a Total of £200,686.

The congestion cost for the US alone increased by More Than £520,000 in a Year , while in Japan rose to almost £500,000 for the same period.

and at the top of The List for speeding - up of £8,000 from the previous Year , Nigeria , the third of the City was toll-list, due to over £7m.

"Congestion charge" in the top-five messages, the amount, the message, the number of fines amount of The Embassy of the United States of America 102,255 £12,446,845 Embassy of Japan 69,690 £8,510,650 High Commission of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 58,102 £7,063,965 Office of The High Commissioner for India 47,654 £6,009,905 Embassy of the Russian Federation 48,535 £5,721,865 tickets - top-five messages, the amount, the message amount, The High Commission for the Federal Republic of Nigeria £47,165 Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan £19,765 High Commission for The Republic of Zambia £17,000 Embassy of the United Arab Emirates £11,565 Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia £9,785

said In a written statement, Mr Raab, as well as the meetings that had written government, the diplomatic missions and international organisations with debts ", giving you the option either to payment of outstanding debt or appeal against certain fines, if they considered that they recorded have been wrong".

However, there are A Number of messages to argue that under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic relations, you don't have to pay taxes, which they consider to be these fees.

A Foreign Office spokesman said that they think it was for whatever legal reason, free The Diplomats from payment of the City to toll, and adds: "The Charge is similar to a Parking fee or a fee, the diplomatic missions and international organizations will be required to pay are. "

And since it was a speeding ticket, he added: "Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic relations, the claim to immunity to be expected to comply with The Law , and we therefore expect that all the Foreign Diplomats pay their Parking tickets.

"How [The Foreign Ministers of the statement] points, we have a concerted effort, urge missions to pay their penalties. "

The BBC has teamed up with the American, Japanese, and Nigerian embassies for an answer



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Source of news: bbc.com

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