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Behind the Money

Afghanistan one year later

Behind the Money

Topher Forhecz

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4.4350 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The FT’s south Asia correspondent Ben Parkin explains how Afghanistan’s economy has changed in the year since US forces left the country and the Taliban retook control of the government.   


Clips from CBS, BBC 


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For further reading:

The Taliban’s black gold: militants seize on coal to reboot economy

Life under the Taliban: ‘what matters is that we’re hungry

The Taliban’s new order: ‘We’ll introduce a system for the world’ 


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On Twitter, follow Benjamin Parkin (@b_parkyn) and Michela Tindera (@mtindera07


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Earlier this summer, the FT. South Asia correspondent Ben Parkin found himself on a road in Afghanistan.

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It was in theory the closest, one of the closest minds to Kabul but it was still ended up

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being an 11 hour journey to get there spread across two days over at time stunning but very kind of precarious mountain roads

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which are supposed to be some of the major highways and trade arteries for the country which shows you know how damaged the

1:06.7

infrastructure has been by the past 20 years of war and so on.

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Ben's destination was a coal mine in the mountains and after hours and hours in the car he could

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tell he was getting close.

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And then you turn a corner to see this mountain you look up, or sort of, you know, quite a large hill, let's say,

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and you look up and you can just see dozens of people just disappearing into these holes in the face of the mountain

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