ZARANJ (Pajhwok): Hundreds of farmers have been staging a peaceful protest against the lack of drinking and irrigation water in southwestern Nimroz province, saying their standing crops on hundreds of acres of land are dying.
The protesting farmers have erected a tent in front of the Agriculture and Irrigation Department in Zaranj, the provincial capital, to demand the authorities in southern Helmand province release water from the Kajaki dam to their farms.
Juma Khan, a participant of the rally, told Pajhwok Afghan News that they had been . . .
