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Afghanistan
US intends to escalate Afghanistan’s air exports: SIGAR
2021-08-02
[KhaamaPress] The United States Special Investigation General for Afghanistan Reconstruction in its latest report stated that the country plans to boost the air exports of Afghanistan.

The plan is sketched for a four-year period i.e. 2021-2025 and is said to be using five major airports of Afghanistan.

In order for the plan to get underway, the US is closely working with the Afghan government to renovate the Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance...
International airport in Kabul, Kandahar in the south, Mazar-e-sharif in the north, 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...
in the west, and Jalalabad airport in the east of Afghanistan.

The renovation process will also create up to 20,000 jobs and will boost Afghanistan’s air exports by 30 percent.

Since the start of experts through the air- air corridor- the war-ravaged country has exported $170 million worth of commercial goods to other countries.

Afghanistan mostly exports its dry fruits and a relatively large amount of fresh fruits and rugs. The Saffron of Afghanistan is the best of its kind in the world and the country is now the largest producer and exporter of pine nuts in the world.
Afghan pine nuts would have to be safer than the Chinese product that’s taken over the market. Opium products no doubt flow through traditional land routes...
The report comes at a time when the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
are having control over six dry ports of the country which has decreased the national revenue of Afghanistan. Herat airport was a halt for a short period of time due to ongoing conflict and Kandahar has been changed to a battlefield between ANDSF and the Taliban.
Posted by:trailing wife

#9  If only they had fuel.
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-08-02 23:36  

#8  # Boy, I really tee'd that one up for you.
Posted by: Matt   2021-08-02 16:34  

#7  air america : https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281636/
Posted by: 746   2021-08-02 14:25  

#6   But it would go swimmingly by air too, if taliban controlled the land routes, no?

All those along the way who would lose their cut would be annoyed.... Pakistan’s ISI being a big one, surely.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-08-02 14:05  

#5  Yes, Klingons I believe.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-08-02 13:48  

#4  ^ Aliens?
Posted by: Matt   2021-08-02 13:46  

#3  ....See also, Southern Air Transport.

I will simply say this: twice in the last few months I've seen C-130s in the old SAT white and gray colors with no logo and a microscopic N number.

Mike

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2021-08-02 12:27  

#2  Air America supposedly ceased operations in 1976. Supposedly...
Posted by: Glenmore   2021-08-02 10:33  

#1   Opium products no doubt flow through traditional land routes...

But it would go swimmingly by air too, if taliban controlled the land routes, no? As exports essential to Afghan reconstruction?
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-08-02 08:05  

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