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rockets since Monday and warned if not prevented the dam will be destroyed.
Salma dam in Cheshte Sharif district of western Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
province is one of the largest and key dams of Afghanistan providing irrigation water and electricity for hundreds of thousands of families in the province.
Officials warned if damaged, the lack of water will adversely affect agriculture in adjacent districts of Herat province.
Authorities in National Water Affairs Regulatory Authority say that rockets and artillery shells landed close to the dam but the dam itself is not hit yet.
As per National Water Affairs Regulatory Authority, the dam is currently irrigating land in eight districts of the province.
The agency in a plea asked the Taliban to not target and destroy national asset.
The hard boyz have not commented on the issue yet.
Salma dam in the biggest project in Afghanistan launched after the ouster of then-president Daoud Khan. The dam was then completed by India in 2016 and was jointly inaugurated by President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...
and Indian Prime Minister Narendar Modi.