Along with other problematic issues causing irritation in Kabul city is population. However, there is no authentic statistics about the population, it is said that around 2.5 million to 5 million people live in the city. Kabul has become the most populated city in the country and the population is increasingly rising by each passing day. In proportion to the population, vehicles have driven up tremendously too; and waiting for minutes and perhaps hours in traffic jams has become part of daily Kabul citizens' lives.

Traveling in public transportations, what stuffs the ears—along with the issues like terrorism, insecurity, unemployment, and drug—— complain about is the lack of vehicles though Kabul streets are filled with different types of them, so why?

The answer is obvious. The population has increased to level which is beyond the capacity of the city. All private and public vehicles are unable to cope with such a level of population. People at the center of the city, sometimes, wait for hours to catch a taxi, bus or any other public vehicles. Even sometimes people walk kilometers due to lack of transportation.

It is heard frequently that Kabul was actually designed for only 500 thousand people while it hosts around five million currently. The outcome is terrible, as the real state prices have hit the height and lease and rent are too high to be provided by low income citizens.

What is the reason behind the population blow-up in the cities?
There are optimists linking the increase of population into the so-called urbanization process which necessarily denotes on the concept that living standard in urban areas has improved. They are arguing that the process is not limited to Afghanistan rather is an international norm.

Hope it was the reason behind but it is not. Even assuming the concept true, the process should be retarded to a convenient level so that government is able to provide the residents the basic needs of life.

More than any factor, insecurity in the country has been playing a critical role in pushing people towards Kabul. Numbers of provinces are exposed to menace of insurgency. Seeking partly safer places, they leave behind their property and agricultural lands and take refuge to cities where they feel somehow safe.

Another reason is of course an undoing process. During decades of turmoil and civil war, millions escaped to neighboring countries. Now when they return, they generally accommodate in cities rather than rural areas.

So, the above factors win blame for population blow-up in the cities which made the prospective of having smooth and still life in the cities quite difficult.