Residents of Shahwali Kot District Complain About Lack of Services and Poor Roads

Residents of Shahwali Kot district in Kandahar report that alongside drought and deteriorating rural roads, they have no access to health, telecommunications, and educational services for children. They have urged the Taliban administration to address these issues and provide basic living facilities.

One resident said the drought has severely affected them and that check dams need to be constructed. Due to the poor condition of the roads, people carry patients on their backs to health centers.

Another resident demanded the reconstruction of roads and said that without telecommunications towers, making phone calls in the area is impossible.

Meanwhile, Dost Mohammad Saeed, head of Kandahar’s Rural Rehabilitation and Development Department under the Taliban administration, told TOLOnews that by the end of the current year, 850 million Afghanis will be spent on building water dams, retaining walls, canals, and water networks in remote areas of the province. He added that efforts are underway to implement other projects in these distant regions.

Taliban provincial officials in Kandahar have stated that to address residents’ problems, they have begun visits to remote districts including Shahwali Kot, Maiwand, Miyanishin, Ghorak, Registan, and Shorabak.