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Afghanistan
Taliban bans use of foreign currency amid economic woes in Afghanistan
2021-11-03
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The use of foreign currencies in Afghanistan will be banned as a response to the country's current economic troubles, a Taliban
...Arabic for students...
* front man has announced.

"The economic situation and national interests in the country require that all Afghans use Afghan currency in their every trade", the Taliban announced.

As the country faces economic crisis and the Taliban-controlled central bank struggles to change the situation, the population has widely resorted to the use of US dollars as a means of trade and payment, as well as the currencies of neighbouring countries, such as the Pak rupee.

Economic woes struck the country soon after the Taliban seized the capital and the rest of the nation in the middle of August 2021. People had trouble getting their hands on cash or withdrawing it from bank accounts as the central bank had imposed restrictions, while companies often could not receive wires from abroad and fulfil their international obligations.
Posted by:Fred

#4  Khaama Press:

Though the previous government had banned the use of Pakistani rupees in the provinces that border that country, people have again started the use of rupees in some districts adjacent to Pakistan in the east and southeast of Afghanistan.

Despite big trade deals inside Afghanistan, the Afghan traders import everything by dollars that count for $8 billion every year that causing the market of Afghanistan to be unstable and traders often suffer big financial losses.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-11-03 22:34  

#3  That was rather quick, it took a couple of years for Carcass to do that.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-11-03 20:54  

#2  This is for the poor bastards stuck there.
The US currency is for stuff outside Afghanistan.
Posted by: ed in texas   2021-11-03 10:43  

#1  So the two pallets of crisp new CIA delivered $100 dollar bills went where?. Obama sent pallets and it went where?. Follow the money. Bribes and payoff's is the way it is done especially in this part of the world.
Posted by: Dale   2021-11-03 08:45  

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