Taliban Officials Discuss Diverting Water From Panjshir River to Kabul City

The Taliban-controlled Bakhtar news agency reported that Taliban officials held a meeting to discuss the diversion of water from the Panjshir River to Kabul.

On Monday, Bakhtar reported that during the meeting Taliban officials discussed how to divert water from Panjshir to Kabul and emphasised on speeding up the work for this project.

The Taliban cabinet has approved the formation of a water regulation committee, which among other objectives, has the mission to implement the project of diversion of water from the Panjshir River to Kabul.

Taliban has stressed that Afghanistan’s capital city is recently facing a water shortage.

Earlier, Attaullah Omari, the Minister of Agriculture of the Taliban, announced that the underground water level in Kabul is also declining sharply.

The Taliban had said that they want to reduce the water shortage in Kabul by diverting water from the Panjshir river.