AIBAK (Pajhwok): Residents of Dara-i-Sauf district in northern Samangan provinces complain against the dilapidated condition of the road leading to Aibak, the provincial capital. They are forced to go to Aibak through Balkh province.
The district - divided into two Dara-i-Sauf Bala and Dara-iSauf Paeen -- is situated 120 kilometers from Aibak and its residents have to travel several extra miles to reach the provincial capital.
Locals say a 50-kilometre stretch of the 120-kilometre route was graveled four decades ago. There are no signs of a road having ever existed . . .
