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Taliban Collect 600 AFG as Tax for Each Kilogram of Opium Smuggled Through Nimruz

5th February, 2023 · admin · Leave a comment

8am: The Taliban are collecting 600 AFG as tax for every KG of opium smuggled through Nimruz border, Afghanistan. Adding that the price of opium has also increased in domestic markets, sources told Hasht-e Subh on Saturday that drug trafficking under the Taliban administration is carried out legally. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Corruption, Drugs, Economic News, Taliban | Tags: Corrupt Taliban, Nimroz, smuggling, Taliban and Drugs |
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Ashraf Ghani Received $110 M From Qatar Not to Resist Taliban

2nd February, 2023 · admin

Khaama: Italian TG1 News Network has revealed an investigative report showing that Qatar had paid Ashraf Ghani more than $110 million to avoid resisting the Taliban fighters. This network has published the document of receipt of this money by Ajmal Ahmadi, the special representative of Ashraf Ghani and the former head of the Central Bank

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Posted in Arab-Afghan Relations, Corruption, History, Political News, Security, Taliban | Tags: Ajmal Ahmadi, Ajmal Ahmady, Ashraf Ghani, Atta Mohammad Noor, Betrayal of Afghan people, Corrupt Ghani, Dostum, Ghani army betrayal, US betrayal of Afghans |
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Taliban’s District Governor in Kapisa Demands 2000 AFG From Butchers for Butchering Each Cow

30th January, 2023 · admin

8am: Sources told Hasht-e Subh that on Monday, January 30, Abdul Matin Saeed, the district governor of the Taliban for Kohistan’s first district, ordered butchers to pay 2,000 AFG for the slaughter of each cow. According to sources, Saeed told the butchers to increase the price of each KG of meat by 50 AFG in

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Posted in Corruption, Economic News, Taliban | Tags: Kapisa, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban extortion |
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Taliban to Deduct Teachers’ Salaries, Justifying That They Received UNICEF Aid 2 Months Ago

25th January, 2023 · admin

8am: “The Taliban have issued a new order, according to which, the teachers’ two-month salaries will be returned to the [Taliban] government treasury because of UNICEF’s humanitarian aid,” said the teacher. “In this extreme cold, teachers, who desperately need help, are wandering with the question of what to eat and how to pay bills. Is

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Posted in Corruption, Economic News, Taliban | Tags: Corrupt Taliban, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban looters |
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Ex-contractor for US forces in Afghanistan pleads guilty to multimillion-dollar bribery scheme

5th January, 2023 · admin

Stars and Stripes: A former U.S. military contractor pleaded guilty this week to bribery and visa fraud in his management of millions of dollars worth of U.S.-funded reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan. Orlando Clark, 57, of Smyrna, Ga., was accused of conspiring with an analyst at another American company in 2011 and 2012 to receive approximately

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Posted in Corruption, Crime and Punishment, Economic News, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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International Aid Money Pillaging by Taliban Goes Unnoticed, Reports FP

31st December, 2022 · admin

8am: “Tens of millions of dollars are flown into Kabul every week by the United States and the United Nations for distribution across the country as humanitarian catastrophe grips tighter with winter closing in. Sources inside and outside the country say much of the money never reaches those who need it,” according to a Foreign

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Posted in Corruption, Ethnic Issues, Taliban | Tags: Ethnic descrimination, Life under Taliban rule, Secretly funding Taliban, Taliban stealing aid, West funding Taliban, West supporting Taliban |
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Afghan government officials helped smugglers sneak almost $1 billion in cash and gold out of Afghanistan as the US-backed government neared collapse, documents show

20th December, 2022 · admin

Business Insider: During the final months of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, as the Taliban advanced on the capital, the elected government struggled to reassure its US patrons that it could maintain control. Yet at the same time, smugglers were illegally carrying hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold out of the country

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Posted in Corruption, Economic News, Political News | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Corrupt Ghani, Ghani Government Failure |
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Taliban Members Embezzle Millions of AFG From Daily Revenue of General Traffic Directorate

18th December, 2022 · admin

8am: In an exclusive report, the Daily Etilaat Roz newspaper revealed the existence of widespread corruption in the general traffic directorate under Taliban rule. Based on the report published on Saturday, Hasibullah Mukhtar, the Taliban’s general traffic director, who is affiliated with the Haqqani network, has illegally recruited his relatives, embezzling the daily revenues of

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Posted in Corruption, Economic News, Haqqani Network, Taliban | Tags: Corrupt Taliban, Hasibullah Mukhtar, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban government failure |
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Pakistan robbing cultural heritage of Afghanistan

17th December, 2022 · admin

ANI: Pakistani agents are robbing Afghanistan of its cultural heritage by smuggling ancient idols and other artifacts from the war-torn country, reported the Afghan Diaspora Network. The smuggling is done by a global racket of smugglers who are facilitated by local Afghan officials. Major support to the crime is provided by actors working from the

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Posted in Art and Culture, Corruption, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban looting resources |
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Pashtunization: Kuchi Land-Grabbers Speed Up Construction Works on Hazara Settlements in Ghazni’s Jaghatu District

17th December, 2022 · admin

8am: Pashtun Nomads (Kuchis) in Jaghatu district, Ghazni province have accelerated the construction of residential houses in settlements under dispute. This settlement is located in the “Pushte Faqirshah” area, Sarab village, Jaghatu district. Local sources claimed that the sedentary population’s pasture lands have been usurped by nomads thanks to the Taliban’s support. Although locals have

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Posted in Corruption, Economic News, Ethnic Issues, Taliban | Tags: Ghazni, Land grabbing, Life under Taliban rule, Pashtun Kuchi Invasion, Pashtunization |
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