The Ministry of Economy said work on 107 development projects which were financed from the national budget, were not started in last fiscal year.

The ministry said work on 57 other projects was stopped due to different reasons in the same year.

“Documents and study of projects are not accurate therefore when they come to procurement phase, they face problems. They are rejected and it takes time to prepare the documents, complete the studies and then re-start the projects,” said Suhrab Bahman, spokesman for the economy ministry.

“There are other problems such as lack of capacity or influence of powerful figures which affect the implementation of national projects,” said Asif Ahmadzai, spokesman for the Supreme Audit Office.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Finance said there were no financial problem for projects in last fiscal year.

“There was no financial problem in the fiscal year and we have no financial problem this fiscal year either. We urge relevant organizations to increase the spending of their allocated budget,” said Ajmal Hameed, spokesman for Finance Ministry.