8am: Farhad Basharyar, a counternarcotics expert, says drug trafficking is one of the Taliban’s sources of funding. According to him, the Taliban have set up drug processing laboratories inside Afghanistan. He claims that these laboratories previously operated in Pakistan’s tribal areas. The expert believes that the dependence of part of the Taliban’s revenue on the
8am: Gul Mohammad (pseudonym), a resident of District 7 of Kandahar city, says that bribes are also demanded from people under various pretexts during the permit process. He stresses that he was referred to the Taliban’s Directorate of Agriculture to obtain an opinion on his land, but after three weeks, a Taliban official in that
8am: Sources in the Baraki Barak district of Logar province accuse the Taliban district governor of taking bribes, bullying, and threatening residents. According to the sources, Noorullah Ghalib, the Taliban district governor, has taken more than 1.5 million Afghanis in bribes from shopkeepers in the Baraki Rajan bazaar and promised them that he would reduce
8am: Sources told the Hasht-e Subh Daily on Monday, October 12, that training centers for Taliban members have better learning materials, advanced equipment, dormitories, and stipends, while ordinary students are deprived of these facilities. Meanwhile, sources say the Taliban also discriminate between their fighters and ordinary citizens in government offices in other provinces of Afghanistan.
8am: In a letter sent to the Hasht-e Subh Daily under the title “Complaint Letter,” these Firozkoh residents stressed that since taking control of the country, the Taliban have looted state property, treated it as “spoils of war,” and plundered it. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: Families in Zabul province say the Taliban are interfering extensively in the distribution of humanitarian aid and channeling it to their own relatives and affiliates. According to residents of Qalat, the capital of Zabul, the people responsible for distributing aid are forced to coordinate with the group out of fear of the Taliban, and
8am: Field findings by the Hasht-e Subh Daily show that since the Taliban announced a ban on the cultivation and trade of narcotics, the price of one kilogram of opium in Helmand province has risen from 3,000 Afghanis to 50,000 Afghanis. The Sharafat, Sarban Kala, Sangin, Musa Qala, Bahramcha and Chanjir bazaars are among the
8am: Several residents of Khwahan District in Badakhshan province have complained about Amanuddin Mohammadi, the Taliban’s deputy district governor. They say he has seized state-owned and private land belonging to residents, handed it over to miners, and extorts money from them. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: A number of residents of Badakhshan have expressed serious concern over the poor state of health service delivery in the province. They say that for about a year, an organization called the “Sanayee Development Organization” (SDO) has been responsible for providing health services in the province, but has failed to properly carry out its
8am: Local sources in Ghazni say that the Taliban have harassed residents of Nawur district in the province and extorted money from them under the pretext of possessing weapons. Sources told the Hasht-e Subh Daily on Thursday, September 24, that the Taliban had arrested and tortured four residents of the “Khawat and Gorg Koshteh” villages