Municipality Title Will be Selective, Optional: Popal

Head of the local Governance in the first celebration of International City Day in Kabul has said,” municipality rank will go in selection process, and mayor will be chosen from the people, saying there some challenges ahead which decrease the speed of the activities.

Acting Mayor for Kabul city AbdulHad Wahed said,” 5 million residents of Kabul city are facing series challenges on daily basis, they suffer from lack of transportation, Traffic jams, no standard infrastructures in the city, the over number of the population in the capital has overshadowed the activities of the municipality.”

Head of the local Governance Abdul Baqi Popal said,” the Kabul mayor post to be selective soon and all citizens have the rights to elect them-selves for such position.”

For the first time the Kabul municipality position will be optional so that all the candidates could apply for the following rank, though there are three technical problems ahead of us, we will still push our efforts through to begin the process and select the new Mayor for Kabul city Head of the local Governance Abdul Baqi Popal urged.

Officials in Ministry of Urban and development stressed that necessary measurements should be adopted to tackle the existed challenges.

Deputy Minister of urban and development Amruddin Salik said,” efforts are underway to remove the existed challenges.”

However the head of the UN housing in Afghanistan Mr.Moshi said,” we promise to change the face of Kabul city better comparing to before and we are committed to provide cooperation.”

The following issue comes after officials in Ministry of urban and development reported that new residential town to be built in 68 Acre in Kabul city, saying the following residential apartments will be built based on the International standards.

Reported by Ali Asghari