GARDEZ (Pajhwok): Most of natural streams across southern Paktia province have become silted or gone dry, causing a shortage of irrigation water.
Many of the water channels in Gardez, the provincial capital, Zurmat, Ahmad Aba, Syed Karam and Mirzaki districts are clogged with sediments or have dried up.
Farmers in the past used the natural streams to irrigate their fields, but now they are full of soil, silt and dirt dust or dried off due to drought and insecurity.
Sardar, a resident of Ahmad Aba district, told Pajhwok Afghan News some people had . . .
