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Afghanistan
Afghan government halts development projects nation-wide
2021-08-02
[KhaamaPress] Afghanistan Ministry of Finance in an official note requested all ministries to halt or suspend their development projects due to a decline in national revenue.

The note also requires governmental bodies to call off all the newly stroke contracts.

The move comes parallel to the announcement of a decrease in the amount of national revenue due to the six dry ports of Afghanistan being under Taliban
...Arabic for students...
control.

As the conflict between the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces and the Taliban rage on daily basis, the Afghan government has apparently made security and military operations its priority. President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...
in the cabinet meeting on Sunday said that Afghan Air Force is conducting up to 150 Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s every day.

The official note has also asked the government bodies to stop squander and providing National Technical Assistance (NTA) salaries.

The Taliban are now controlling Dand-e-Patan port in Paktia province, AiKhanum in Takhar province, SherKhan in Kunduz province, Islam Qala and Tor Ghundi 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...
province, Abu Nasr Farahi in Farah province and Spin Boldak dry port and crossing in Kandahar province

The decline in national revenue and rise in the expenditure of Security Forces have obliged the Afghan government to halt development projects.
Posted by:trailing wife

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"Stop all activity! No sense serving up a functional economy no? Focus instead on getting those planes!"
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-08-02 05:41  

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