Report in TOLOnews Online, Nov 27, 2023 at 3:59 PMZabiullah Mujahid, the spokesman of the Islamic Emirate, said that if there is water, the Islamic Emirate is committed to Iran’s water rights treaty from the Helmand River. Zabiullah Mujahid said that currently, there is a drought in the country and Afghans are facing the problem of water scarcity. “In general, the Islamic Emirate is committed to the agreement made in the past between Afghanistan and…
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by Malik Asad in Dawn, Nov 2nd, 2023ISLAMABAD: A day after the Supreme Court gave nod to accountability courts to continue proceedings on corruption references, Islamabad’s accountability court on Wednesday summoned former president and PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari and Ijaz Ahmed Khan, a former secretary to the Sindh government, in the Thatta water supply case. The case was among dozens of references transferred from accountability courts because of the amendments made in the National…
by Habib Rahman Qooyash in Tolo News online, Sept 20, 2023 at 9:12 PMThe Islamic Emirate said that Afghanistan does not have an agreement with any country in the Amu Darya River basin, and that it is Afghanistan’s right to use water resources. Abdul Latif Mansour, the acting Minister of Energy and Water (MoEW), said the current Afghan government is prepared to discuss the Amu Darya water issue in order to resolve the worries of…
report in Khaama Press, Aug 25, 2023During a press conference, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanani emphasized the importance of monthly assessments of the water level in the Helmand River to ensure Iran’s water quota is met. Kanani underscored that Tehran’s technical delegation is actively and seriously addressing this issue. “Continuing to send regular monthly information and periodical visits, water measurement information and indicators, timely visits to this station and accurate determination of the amount…
Report in TOLOnews Online, May 24, 2023 at 9:58 PMThe Iranian Minister of Interior, Ahmad Wahidi, at a public forum rejected the statements of Islamic Emirate authorities about the lack of water in the Helmand River and said that the existing reports are “contrary to the claims made, and that is why the officials’ field visit is proposed and if there is no water, the issue will be resolved.” The tension between Kabul and Tehran…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, April 24, 2023The Foreign Minister of Iran, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, once again emphasized the issue of Iran’s right to the Helmand River. Abdollahian said in an interview with IRNA Govt News Agency that based on the order of the Iran President, Ebrahim Raisi, during the one and half years, the foreign ministry, and the special envoy for Afghanistan, Kazem Qomi, have pursued the matter consistently. Iranian Foreign…
by Dipankar Roy in The Daily Star, Mar 22, 2023Waking up before dawn, Dipali Mondal takes a three-km walk every day to collect drinking water from a pond for her five-member family in Channirchak village of Khulna’s Dakop upazila. She needs to walk through a bumpy road to the pond. “I have to cross a big canal on the way to fetch pond water. On a sunny day, I cannot walk much at a stretch.…
by Buddhika Samaraweera and Buwanajee Coralage in The Morning, Feb 9 , 2023Warning of a series of actions against the newly introduced tax revisions, thousands of public servants representing several trade unions (TU) of many sectors, including petroleum, ports, water supply, electricity, health and education held a massive demonstration jointly in Colombo yesterday (8), while separate trade union actions, including strikes, were also launched urging the Government to revoke the tax revisions in question. Several…
by Arjun Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 8, 2023Renuka Nepali, a local from Ritthe village in Ramechhap’s Doramba Sailung Rural Municipality-6, wakes up at 3 am everyday and walks for one-and-a-half hours to a nearby stream to fetch water. This wasn’t always the case. The problem emerged after the source supplying drinking water to Nepali’s village dried up due to a prolonged dry spell. As a result, Nepali and other villagers have been forced…
By Imran Danish in TOLOnews, Jan 23, 2023 at 9:05 PMIran has once again sought commitment from Afghanistan to the Helmand River Treaty signed between the two sides in 1973. Iran’s newly appointed ambassador to Kabul, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, in a meeting with Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said Afghanistan’s water resources should be managed to prevent waste and protect Iran’s water rights from it. In this meeting, Muttaqi assured the Iranian ambassador that…