The Kabul Tribune (KT) — The Taliban’s Ministry of Rural Development says it has launched the construction of a gravel road stretching more than 90 kilometers in Kandahar’s Shorabak district. The ministry announced on Sunday, Nov. 16, that the project is being carried out at a cost of over 305 million afghanis.
According to the ministry, the project is expected to ease
transportation challenges for local residents and create hundreds of temporary
jobs during the construction phase.
The ministry said officials from the Taliban’s Rural
Development Ministry, representatives from the provincial directorate, the
district governor of Shorabak, religious scholars, elders and community members
attended the inauguration ceremony.
