After Taliban and al-Qaeda, Nature is also turning hostile to the Afghanis as the death toll, owing to the avalanches and floods caused by warm weather and heavy spring rains all over Afghanistan, have reached 88.
Early on Monday at about 2 a.m., Kabul river once again become ruthless and broke its banks in and around the capital town that brushed away as minimum as 170 houses, with no immediate casualties. But, about 37 people were killed by heavy rains and spring snow melt in different parts of the nation.
Most of the provinces in Afghanistan have profoundly been flooded over the last two weeks. About 25,000 people of 5,000 families is said to be affected by the startling floods and avalanches.
Existing natural calamity is more than a bolt from the blue for Afghan people, as Kabul river had rapidly been dipping down and there were a drought like condition in the last decade in Afghanistan.
Evacuation and airlifting is on in the most affected areas, like Sayed Khel district in Parwan province where 350 families were evacuated safely and Panjshir, by Afghan troops and different agencies.
On the other side of the border, the fatal avalanches have devoured around 29 people in northwestern Pakistan and dispersed many more from their homes.
With increasing global warming, accompanied by summer that is just knocking at the doors in the region, which will melt more snow from the mountains, there appears no respite for the people and administration of Afghanistan as well as Pakistan from floods in the days to come.
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