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India-Pakistan
Pakistan Reopens Spin Boldak Crossing Held by Taliban
2021-07-29
[ToloNews] Pakistain reopened southwestern the Chaman-Spin Boldak crossing in Kandahar province that is currently held by the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
, Pak customs officials said, as quoted by Rooters.

The Pak government has allowed over 100 trucks carrying goods to cross into Afghanistan, the report said.

The crossing has remained closed by Pakistain since fierce fighting for control of the Spin Boldak district erupted between Afghan government and the Taliban earlier this month.

"Pakistain has opened its border with Afghanistan at Chaman today and resumed Afghan Transit Trade which was suspended since the last one month," Arif Kakar, a bigwig of the Chaman pass said as quoted by Rooters.

He said it would remain open six days a week.

The Afghan government has not yet commented on the move.

The Finance Ministry on Monday said the Afghan government has lost 2.7 billion Afs (over $33 million) in customs revenue over the last four weeks as key border towns have fallen to the Taliban during this period.

Over the past month, the government has lost control of key border towns including Islam Qala in Herat
...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...
, Abu Nasr Farahi in Farah, Spin Boldak in Kandahar, Ai Khanum in Takhar, Dand Patan in Paktia and Shirkhan in Kunduz province.

The Finance Ministry said that the government has no control over seven customs departments in border towns.

The Islam Qala customs area is one of the biggest trade gateways between Afghanistan and Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and has been under Taliban control for the last 20 days.

Rafi Tabe, a front man for the Ministry of Finance, said the collections from Jawza (May 22 to June 22, 2021) was 7.3 billion (at least $91 million) but this was reduced to 4.6 billion Afs ($57 million) in Saratan (June 23 to July 23).

"The customs revenue is dependent on trading. It will have a negative impact on revenue if there are issues in trading," he said.

Private sector representatives said the issues around the border towns have affected traders’ willingness to import goods to the country through these gateways.

Investors suggested that the government should take control of income-generating border towns to prevent further harm to importers.
Related:
Spin Boldak: 2021-07-27 $33M Lost in Customs Revenue in Past Month: MoF
Spin Boldak: 2021-07-26 14 thousand families displaced in past two weeks in Afghanistan.
Spin Boldak: 2021-07-24 US warbirds hit Taliban targets in Kandahar
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