INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, deputy prime minister for economic affairs, said Thursday at the opening ceremony of Zabul&s ToriDam & now
called the Omari Dam & that the Islamic Emirate carried out what it promised and the government will implement more projects in this
province.&Every promise made by the Islamic Emirate will be fulfilled, Inshallah,& said Baradar.The Omari Dam project is located four
kilometers from Qalat city, the capital of Zabul province, and has a total value of more than 127 million AFN.The hydroelectric dam will
also be used to control flood waters, to irrigate land and strengthen underground water sources.&Our effort is to do more work and services
for Zabul province,& said Mohammad Yunus Akhundzada, acting Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development.The dam wall is 23 meters high
and has a storage capacity of 2.9 million cubic meters of water and a production capacity of 61 kilowatts of electricity
It can irrigate 560 hectares of agricultural land and thousands of families will benefit from it.Zabul is considered one of the provinces
where the least development projects have been implemented in the past twenty years, and now the people of Zabul ask the IEA to take more
steps in terms of developing the province.The post Deputy PM Baradar inaugurates new Zabul dam, says IEA fulfills all its promises first
