Afghanistan Ministry of Transport and Aviation said on Thursday that the government will take over all Afghan airspace management responsibilities by the year 2014.
Currently 50 percent of the Afghan air space responsibilities are with foreign troops and Afghans are gradually taking over, the Ministry said.
Security towers, radars and monitoring of the Afghan airspace is done jointly by Afghan and foreign forces, according to officials.
The United States, Germany and Turkey are among the countries supporting Afghan Ministry of Transport and Aviation with capacity building.
"In the past we had less control over our airspace, but fortunately we have 50 percent of the responsibility now," a spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Transport and Aviation, Nangyalai Qalatwal, said.
The Ministry is optimistic about the future as many Afghan youths graduate from the Institute of Aviation every year.
It says government income will increase as Afghans take over more responsibilities.
It comes as the Minister of Transport and Aviation, Dawood Ali Najafi, recently said that incomes of the Ministry of Aviation had increased by 30% percent compared to last year.
Mr Najafi said its income this year has reached approximately 90 million dollars.
The Ministry also said it was planning to increase air transit taxes on foreign airliners using Afghan airspace.
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