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Afghanistan one year later

2022/8/24
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The FT’s south Asia correspondent Ben Parkin explains how Afghanistan’s economy has changed in the year since US forces left the country and the Taliban retook control of the government.   

Clips from CBS, BBC 

For further reading:

The Taliban’s black gold: militants seize on coal to reboot economy)

Life under the Taliban: ‘what matters is that we’re hungry)’

The Taliban’s new order: ‘We’ll introduce a system for the world’

On Twitter, follow Benjamin Parkin (@b_parkyn)) and Michela Tindera (@mtindera07)) 

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