Could the Taliban's $680M Canal Project Spark a Conflict With its Central Asian Neighbours?
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- After the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan in 2021, it made an ambitious canal project one of its main priorities. With construction already underway in the country's drought-stricken north, Taliban officials say they hope that once completed, the 680 million dollar project will ensure the nation's farming needs. But neighboring states have deep concerns over water security in the region, sparking fears of renewed tensions.
The Qosh Tepa Canal will begin from the Amu Darya in Balkh province and stretch 285 kilometers towards the country's southeast once it's completed. And that's expected to happen within the next five years, as the project is in its second phase. But Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan say the canal could radically change the water regime in Central Asia, as both countries are concerned the reduced flow will affect their profitable cotton fields. In Afghanistan, the UN says, over 15 million people are facing food insecurity. The Taliban says the canal will partly ease that problem. But if it's not properly managed, could it lead to a new conflict in the region?
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Hashmat Sadat
Water Resource Specialist
Bruce Pannier
Political Analyst
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Well, Afghanistan has all the right to do what they want to do with its land and water for its economy, like any other countries. This river was eating the land by thousands of hectares going under water. While the water was reciding on the other side. When the other side was very happy to collect water and occupy the lands been reciding, Afghans also had the right to protect its land and water for its use? I don't understand why we Afghans never been left alone or allowed to develop without the interference of the West? They prevent us from every right of development, then they call us third-world undeveloped countries? What do they fear? Why do they fear our development?
We have right for 26% of the water of Amu Darya, yet the Qosh tepa uses 15% while Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have combined right of around 10% while using way more in the last century. This needed to change.
Its not Taliban canal, its an Afghan Canal. TRT you are twisting words just as the Western media is doing to the Palestinians
Fair point
Yes, brother, it is the Afghan canal, not the Taliban. Luckily we all know Western Media.
Free Kurdistan Afghanistan stand with Kurdistan 🇦🇫✌️
We do indeed. Kurdistan zindabad
Hashmat Saadat seems to be from Pakistan or India. Next time, plz invite some local experts from northern Afghanistan.
Said Hashmat Sadat he was a former UN employee in Afghanistan he speaks only dari born in Oh I see you are being racist for his thick south Asian accent 😅😅 ok look from 2001-2008 he was in Pakistan studying English and he completed his Environmental Engineering PhD from pakistan. In 2009 he arrived in Sweden. He then joined UN special mission in Afghanistan in 2012
Sadat is from Afghanistan :-)
Alot of afghanis studied in Pakistan. Like hamdullah mohib rehamatullah nabeel and ashraf ghajis etc etc..but.they bite Pakistan back.
Idiot. Thats the problem. He is not not local. He doesn't know the geography of Northern of Afghanistan. I bet he even wont be able to pronounce correctly name of Canal Qosh Teppa. Buying PhDs and masters from Pakistan is like buying goats and sheep.
@@LoyaAfghanistan
@@nehaasharijit6523 wtf are they? You just bs names anyways his education was paid by US aid under war of terr where pk got over 32 billion too. You ppl hav no right to talk about back biting duranline expired u ppl lied in the name of Islam holding disputed land the baloch also were back stabbed. Pk didn’t even pay 1/10 of aid received by Un refugees program 1981-1996. After 9/11 pk backstabbing their “muslim brothers” then more towRds big uncle sam to continue receiving aid billion tax payers money went to pk. your founding statefather piq e jinna also most of his life education in british and he spit 💩 like a snake against british if you cannot handle facts don’t talk.
don’t waste your time this is our right to use our own resources
We been in the war on the last 50 years otherwise we would have been bullied it up in 1970
Turkey should talk about its own water problem with Iraq.
Our water our choice 😂😂
Afghanistan has 1/3 right to the water, if not more because the water is flowing from its mountains.
Nobody wants fight with Taliban 😂
they dont learn from aral sea
yes abselutly
With the heavy western sanctions on Afghanistan how can they employ outside experts and companies
We still have trade with pakistan and China. And thankfully taliban aren't theives like the republic government
Turkey needs to invest in Afghanistan.
Tajikistan 🇹🇯 Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 should should Khorasan freedom from Afgandu 🇦🇫
2takeka Hindus upne had Mai rahu
@@fghan786he is a pakistani not indian( wo pakistani hai india nahi hai)
Hum bohot jald Pakhtoon Pakistan se apni azadi chahte hai aur le k rahenge ek din Lar O Bar Yaw Afghanistan ✌️🇦🇫
Khorasan never existed as a country. We tajiks have been native to the region, we never wanted khorasan, we want some representation in Afghanistan that's all.
This topic in same head line in more videos.. seems trt not idol to CIA virus
Management of water resource Central Asia is very poor, that's why Taliban taking advantage.
We are not taking advantage. We have every right to the water. Be happy we aren't taking all of it.