FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): The Taliban have banned farmers from irrigation water in the Yaftal Payeen district of northeastern Badakhshan province, leaving crops on more than 5,000 acres of land parched.
Imam Ali Hamdami, the district’s administrative chief, confirmed to Pajhwok Afghan News that the militants had restricted the use of irrigation water in five villages of the district. The ban has been in force for two months.
The insurgents had asked farmers that each village should pay them . . .
