"Kevin Watkins calls for an immediate resumption of international funding before crisis turns into catastrophe."

"The Taliban are showing their true colours. The people face a desperate struggle for basic rights – and for survival"

On Saturday, the Taliban raised their flag over the presidential palace on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, signalling that their work governing the newly formed Islamic emirate had begun. The white banner bearing a Qur’anic verse _...Read More_

>"U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Friday an Afghan economic collapse would occur if assets weren’t unfrozen, saying the collapse would be beneficial to terrorist groups in the area."

>"Afghans forced to sell possessions on streets of Mazar-e-Sharif as fragile economy buckles under _...Read More_

"Afghanistan experienced rapid economic growth in the decade following the US invasion and the ouster of the Taliban. But the subsequent stagnation of living standards – rooted in the failure to build a self-sustaining domestic economy – _...Read More_

"The US and the IMF should provide the Taliban with limited fund access to prevent economic collapse, Shah Mehrabi says."

"If investors walk away, Afghanistan faces economic collapse without the billions of dollars it gets in aid money."

"The last time the Taliban stopped poppy growth n opium production, heroin shortages lead to increases in the production of illicit fentanyl" Yes it will happen again, yes we know this…will anything be done?

"Tehran resumed fuel exports to Afghanistan, with the Taliban providing dollars to Iran from its narcotics operations."

"Tf the Taliban, a movement still strongest in its Pashtun heartland, come into too abrasive a conflict with the traditional loyalties of other Afghans to their kith, kin, and tribe, they may struggle."

>"In the half-century since US President Richard Nixon closed the curtain on the Bretton Woods system, the US dollar has been _...Read More_

"The ‘Islamic Emirate’s’ economic prospects, inflation, cryptocurrency, and more."

"What you need to know about Afghanistan’s economy and the push to keep its overseas assets out of Taliban hands."

"Ajmal Ahmady said the central bank had $9 billion in international reserves, including $7 billion at the Federal Reserve. The Biden administration has frozen the assets in U.S. banks."