RASC News: According to people’s sources from Khost province in the south of the country, the trees of this province are cut down and smuggled to Pakistan by the local strongmen in cooperation with the Taliban group.
These sources told the media today, Tuesday, August 29, that the cutting of forests in Khost province has increased significantly recently, and that the local strongmen are doing this with the cooperation of the local officials of the Taliban group.
Sources added that this process is still going on in Sapiri, Tani, Doh Manda and Qalandar districts of Khost province.
According to the sources, no action has been taken to prevent this work of the Taliban group by the Departments of Agriculture and Environmental Protection under the control of this group in Khost.
It should be mentioned that reports were published earlier that along with the developments in Afghanistan, the smuggling of wood to Pakistan from Kunar, Nuristan, Khost, Paktia and Paktika provinces has increased.
“Foreign Policy” had previously said in a report that “Choki” district of Kunar province is located along one of the front lines of the war with ISIS, and in addition, it is one of the key points for smugglers to transfer wood to other parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
It should also be noted that before this, different media had reported on ISIS’s income generation through forest destruction and fuel smuggling from Kunar province to other regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
It is worth mentioning that the country’s forests are considered as one of the country’s capitals, which the Taliban group threatens to destroy.
