Deputy minister for disaster management Sharafuddin Muslim said the latest deluges wracked the provinces of Faryab and Parwan, as well as various other regions. Since the Taliban stormed back to power in August last year foreign-funded aid and disaster relief schemes have dramatically fallen off, said to foreign media house. Rescue efforts have therefore fallen to the Taliban themselves, who have been waging an insurgency for the past twenty years and have little experience in emergency management.