Overcome Unemployment, Drought And Hunger: Taliban Opens Labor Intensive Program For Water Infiltration, Wages 10 Kg Of Wheat

Illustration of the launch of a labor intensive project by the Government of Afghanistan. (Twitter/@Zabehulah_M33)

JAKARTA - The Afghan government formed by the Taliban is holding a labor-intensive program to tackle the problems of drought, unemployment and hunger, according to a government spokesman.

In his Twitter post on October 25, government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid wrote that this program will attract around 40,000 workers to work on a project to build a water catchment management facility in Kabul involving the Operations Department and Supporting Agency, together with the National Development Company.

"This project was launched in Badola Desert and Khairabad Mountains to prevent wastage and water depletion in Kabul. Each worker will be paid 10 kilograms of wheat a day," Mujahid wrote on Twitter.

"Work is an important necessity of life for the Ummah and one of the priorities of the leadership of the Islamic Emirate," continued Mujahid, who is also one of the Taliban's senior figures.

Meanwhile, Afghanistan's Acting Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Abdul Rahman Rashid said the Ministry of Agriculture has a strategic reserve of 66,000 tonnes of wheat which will be distributed to other provinces after Kabul, such as Baghlan, Balkh, Nangarhar and Kandahar in exchange for food.

"Poverty and hunger have many causes. One of them is COVID-19 which has hit the whole world. The second is the drought in Afghanistan and the surrounding region. The third reason is the cessation of global aid to Afghanistan and the freezing of Afghan capital and money in international banks," he said. Abdul Rahman Rashed, Afghanistan's acting Minister of Agriculture, quoted Euronews Oct. 25.

The Director of the Operations and Support Agency said the leadership of the Islamic Emirate was trying to create job opportunities and economic dynamism for the people, in addition to overall security.

Meanwhile, the deputy mayor of Kabul said he was working with the commission to create jobs for the people of Kabul to reduce unemployment and poverty.

۱/۵ ــ کابل کې د اوبو دمدیریت پروژه کې 40000 کسانو ته دکار زمینه مساعد شوه.

د ااا دچارو ادارې لوی ریاست دعملیاتي اوحمایوي ادارې او ملي پراختیا شرکت ترمنځ د کابل شین کمربند اړوند د ابریزو( د ورښت اوبو زیرمه کولو) په موخه دکیندنې پروژه کې ۴۰۰۰۰ هېوادوالو ته کاري فرصتونه برابر شول. pic.twitter.com/uoJzkwdjcv

— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33) October 24, 2021