Afghan government officials claim that diseases originating from the pollution of living environment in Kabul city only, kill at least eight (8) in every 24 hours. This figure is equivalent to over 300,000 individuals on annual basis.

Muhammad Amin Faheem, the Minister of Public Health, on the occasion of World Environment Day, said this in Kabul that Air Pollution has promoted respiratory and cordial diseases amongst Afghans.

Afghanistan’s National Department of Living Environment officials say in order to improve the living conditions and to bring down the scale of environmental pollution they have demanded of convening an international sitting.

Afghan government has recognized the constantly increase in air pollution in Kabul City to be accounted for and call it a ‘serious challenge”.

Afghan government’s efforts with the collaboration of International NGO’s in the recent years to curb the air pollution of the living environment, has met little success.

One of the major problems that worsen the air by polluting it increasingly is the growing traffic and uncontrolled and unaccounted licensing of road vehicles. These vehicles which slip easily across the borders from Central Asian Republics find a cheap marker in Kabul. The narrow streets of Kabul, a city designed only for 3 million people where now live over 5 million people, doubles the dilemma.

The New Kabul City which has been designed to be funded heavily and built over 50, 000 square Kilometers could only offer a relief to the worsening situation but it will take the Kabulis to wait for another 20 years or more before that city is built.