Afghanistan Facing Severe Drought, Says Taliban PM
Mawlawi Abdul Kabir, acting Prime Minister of the Taliban, said that the people of Afghanistan are facing serious problems due to severe drought.
During a meeting with Abdul Latif Mansoor, the group’s minister of water and energy on Tuesday, the Taliban acting prime minister said that the water level has decreased in most of the cities and other areas of Afghanistan.
Taliban’s acting prime minister has remarked about the severe drought in Afghanistan while over 200 members of the Iranian parliament have asked for the water rights of Iran from the Helmand River.
These Iranian members of the parliament on Tuesday in a joint statement emphasised that any obstruction to providing water rights is a “violation of Iran nation’s right and is against international laws”.
These parliament members asked for a quick flow of Helmand water toward Iran.
However, the Taliban’s response has been that there is not enough water in Afghanistan.
In the meeting with Abdul Kabir, the Taliban’s minister of energy and water, said that the group is committed to all agreements about the water issues.
The Taliban prime minister’s office in a statement said that Abdul Kabir has stressed on long and short-term programmes to address the drought in Afghanistan.
