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Mainstream, VOL LIX No 4, New Delhi, January 9, 2021
The Taliban are megarich – here’s where they get the money they use to wage war in Afghanistan | Hanif Sufizada
Saturday 9 January 2021
December 8, 2020
The Taliban militants of Afghanistan have grown richer and more powerful since their fundamentalist Islamic regime was toppled by U.S. forces in 2001.
In the fiscal year that ended in March 2020, the Taliban reportedly brought in US$1.6 billion, according to Mullah Yaqoob, son of the late Taliban spiritual leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, who revealed the Taliban’s income sources in a confidential report commissioned by NATO and later obtained by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.