MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): The Amu River has swollen about 200,000 acres of land in five Afghanistan’s provinces due to consolidation of the river’s banks by neighbouring countries, the Ministry of Water and Energy said on Saturday.
Without naming any country, Deputy Water and Energy Minister Fahimullah Ziaee told reporters in the capital of northern Balkh province that river banks consolidation had also destroyed border signs with neighbouring countries.
The Oxus forms 1,200 kilometres of Afghanistan’s border with Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan . . .
