Afghanistan Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) said controversial dialogues and discussion on promoting some districts to province is underway since days now.
Sayed Shah Saqeem, spokesman to the IDLG said to Killid that IDLG officials and Afghan government have been discussing on promoting some districts and distant areas to some new provinces.
According to Saqeem, no districts so far have been designated to promoting it into province, however, dialogues on increasing provinces in Afghanistan is ongoing.
It comes amid viral posts flooded at social media accounts on promoting districts such as Shinwari, Nangarhar; Jaghori, Ghazni; Shindand, Herat; and Pamir mountains of Badakhshan into new provinces in Afghanistan.