The United Nations food agency, the World Food Programme, say it has protested to the Taleban movement in Afghanistan over the disappearance of one thousand five hundred metric tonnes of emergency food aid.

The agency said that in a protest lodged with the Taleban representative in Pakistan it had demanded the immediate return of the missing foodstocks and six agency vehicles, It had also protested over the occupation of its offices in Bamyan and Yakawlang by the Taleban authorities.The agency said the aid had been pre-positioned to try to offset expected food shortages which could affect up to one-hundred-and-sixty-thousand people in the Hazarajat region this winter.