...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
, Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
, and Khost province
... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name...
s on Sunday, November 14.
Head of the Directorate Alam Gul Haqqani said that the decision was made by the ministry of interior affairs in order to further facilitate the process for those who apply for passports.
Alam Gul Haqqani said that priority will be given to those who have already filled online form for the passports.
"The passports will be issued based on the e-ID or the previous IDs that are verified officially. The rumors about lack of passport are not true." Said Haqqani.
Haqqani added that there are 900,000 passports in the directorate, 600,000 passports with the company responsible for their printing, one million passports are in the process of printing, and one and a half million more are going to be printed.
The decision will gradually lessen the crowd of thousands of people who gather from across the country at the gate of the Passport Directorate in Kabul.
As per statistics, the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...have issued one hundred thousand passports since they resumed the process and have made 500 million Afghanis from it.
At an official exchange rate of 1,000 afghanis to US$10.93, that’s $45.7 million — not a trivial amount.