Special Reports

The northern Sar-i-Pul province is rich in mineral and natural reserves but their extraction process faces multiple obstacles with special reference the presence of armed groups and remoteness of the areas.
Officials of the Ministry of Mines say there are many kinds of mines such as petroleum, copper and coal elsewhere in the province, which are extracted by various groups of their own in a nontechnical and nonprofessional way without government authorization.
Petroleum:

 
SAR-i-PUL (PAN): The economy of around 80% population of the Sar-i-Pul province depends on agriculture and livestock farms, provincial officials said.
In addition, natural resources elsewhere in the province offer better employment opportunities for the residents.
Farmers said rehabilitation could not take place during the past decade in the province as was expected by the people, noting the growers’ community was facing the same decades old problems.
Half of their land deprived of cultivation every season because of shortage of irrigation water, they added.

 
SAR-I-PUL (PAN): Expressing satisfaction over security situation, residents of Sar-i-Pul demanded security officials were needed to adopt more stringent measures to strengthen law and order in an attempt to further win the support of the people.
Security officials said law and order had been bolstered as compared to the past, adding efforts were on to keep security maintained in parts of the province. They expressed optimism some hurdles hampering security measures would be removed if people extended their all out supports.

 
SAR-I-PuL CITY (PAN): Officials said rehabilitation work in the province had been expedited but it was moving with a slow-paced during the past, causing considerable delay to complete the allocated projects.   
Earlier, the official said large scale development was witnessed in education sector, road infrastructure and demining sector during the last decade.
Abdul Jabbar Haqbin, governor of Sar-i-Pol province told Pajhwok Afghan News rehabilitation and development project could not be implemented in the province because of multiple problems.

 
SAR-I-PUL (PAN): Residents of Sari-e-Pul province said most of the schools in the province were facing serious problems including lack of efficient and professional teachers, textbooks and proper buildings.
The vital education sector did not receive proper attention of the concerned departments, leaving the volatile Sar-i-Pul backward in terms of education and literacy rate, residents said.

SAR-i-PUL (PAN): The economy of around 80% population of the Sar-i-Pul province depends on agriculture and livestock farms, provincial officials said.
In addition, natural resources elsewhere in the province offer better employment opportunities for the residents.
Farmers said rehabilitation could not take place during the past decade in the province as was expected by the people, noting the growers’ community was facing the same decades old problems.
Half of their land deprived of cultivation every season because of shortage of irrigation water, they added.

SAR-I-PUL (PAN): Expressing satisfaction over security situation, residents of Sar-i-Pul demanded security officials were needed to adopt more stringent measures to strengthen law and order in an attempt to further win the support of the people.
Security officials said law and order had been bolstered as compared to the past, adding efforts were on to keep security maintained in parts of the province. They expressed optimism some hurdles hampering security measures would be removed if people extended their all out supports.

SAR-I-PUL (PAN): Residents of Sari-e-Pul province said most of the schools in the province were facing serious problems including lack of efficient and professional teachers, textbooks and proper buildings.
The vital education sector did not receive proper attention of the concerned departments, leaving the volatile Sar-i-Pul backward in terms of education and literacy rate, residents said.

SAR-I-PuL CITY (PAN): Officials said rehabilitation work in the province had been expedited but it was moving with a slow-paced during the past, causing considerable delay to complete the allocated projects.   
Earlier, the official said large scale development was witnessed in education sector, road infrastructure and demining sector during the last decade.
Abdul Jabbar Haqbin, governor of Sar-i-Pol province told Pajhwok Afghan News rehabilitation and development project could not be implemented in the province because of multiple problems.