Short on Money, Legal and Otherwise, the Taliban Face a Crisis

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Trade has already started up again with Iran, said David Mansfield, an independent consultant and an expert on rural Afghanistan, citing satellite imagery of fuel tankers and transit trucks moving across the border.
50% : The Taliban could see support from governments like Pakistan, Iran and China that might have their own reasons for keeping relations with Afghanistan warm.
47% : He has estimated that during its insurgency, the Taliban was able to raise more than $100 million a year from informally taxing goods from Iran and southern Afghanistan.
46% : Those features make it useful for evading taxes, paying bribes and laundering ill-gotten gains.

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