The World Food Program of the United Nations (WFP) says it will financially support over 6,000 poor families in Kunduz province.

During the distribution of cash aid to the residents of Kunduz, the UN humanitarian aid coordinator for Afghanistan Indrika Ratwatte said that FAO would support each family for six months.

Ratwatte added that an amount of 3,200 afghanis will be given to each family monthly.

“We are witnessing the distribution of cash to 600 families in the center of Kunduz. In total, cash distribution continues to cover 6,500 families, and this helps food security,” he said.

He stated that for self-sufficiency and food security, they support farmers in three important sectors, which are the restoration and creation of cold houses, the irrigation system of agricultural lands, the distribution of seeds and small loans.

“In the third part, where we support the farmers, we will restore the irrigation systems and help the farmers turn their land into irrigated land and harvest from the same land several times a year,” Ratwatte added.

Meanwhile, the residents of Kunduz are happy with the distribution of UN humanitarian aid, but they want permanent work and job opportunities to be created for them instead of financial aid.

It should be noted that over the past year, more than 30,000 families have been returned to Kunduz from Iran and Pakistan.

The UN refugee officials said that they cooperate with the returnees in food safety, shelter, safe drinking water and providing education for their children.

The Islamic Emirate’s deputy spokesman for the foreign ministry Zia Ahmad Takal has strongly condemned the "recent barbaric attacks by the Zionist regime" in Lebanon, which have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people, including children and women.

“Failure to respond seriously to the genocide of the Zionist regime in Gaza has made this regime endanger the security of the entire region,” Takal said in a statement on Tuesday.

The statement added: “The international community must quickly take responsible measures to prevent the crimes of the “Zionist regime" in Lebanon and Palestine, especially Gaza, and ensure the security of civilians.”

Tajikistan says it has exported $82 million worth of electricity to Afghanistan and Uzbekistan between January and August this year.

According to Tajik media reports, this is a drop of almost $3 million against the same period last year.

Electricity production in Tajikistan, for export, during this period totalled 15.4 billion kilowatt hours.

Of this amount, 80 percent was exported to Afghanistan and the remaining 20 percent to Uzbekistan.

Tajikistan signed electricity export contracts with these two neighboring countries in 2024.

Tajikistan only exports electricity to Uzbekistan in the summer, but mostly exports electricity to Afghanistan in autumn and winter.

Afghanistan imports up to 70% of its electricity needs from neighboring countries including Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Iran.

Earlier this year, the State-owned Corporations said that during the last year, Da Afghanistan Breshna (DABS) has produced a total of 1.2 million megawatts of electricity and imported a total of 5.6 million megawatts of electricity from neighboring countries.