RASC News Agency: Taliban officials in Balkh province have announced that Uzbekistan has provided 200 tons of food and non-food supplies to assist flood victims across various provinces in Afghanistan. On Tuesday, May 21, a 200-ton shipment of aid from Uzbekistan was handed over by Ismatulla Irgashev, Uzbekistan’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, to Rahmatullah Fazil, the Taliban’s Chief of Finance and Administration at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the Hairatan border.
The aid from Uzbekistan includes flour, rice, wheat, oil, meat, water tanks, tents, and other essential items needed by those affected by the recent floods. During the handover, Irgashev stated that his country’s humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan would continue and urged the Taliban to promptly distribute the aid to the flood victims.
Several provinces, including Baghlan, Ghor, Takhar, Badakhshan, Faryab, Badghis, and Samangan, have recently experienced devastating floods, resulting in hundreds of deaths and displacing thousands of families. Previously, some flood victims from various provinces reported that the Taliban had not addressed their plight and that no aid had been provided by relief agencies until now.
