: Why the Taliban are eager to gain international legitimacy: it’s the economy, stupid #IndiaNEWS We are being told that the Taliban of today are not the same as the Taliban of 1996. Fair enough but

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Why the Taliban are eager to gain international legitimacy: it’s the economy, stupid #IndiaNEWS
We are being told that the Taliban of today are not the same as the Taliban of 1996. Fair enough but the Afghanistan of today is not the same as the Afghanistan of 1996 either. The Taliban were able to capture the country with more ease than anyone imagined, and certainly more ease than in 1996. But now that the war has ended, as their spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, announced in his maiden press conference, the real job of running the country begins. And this is not as simple as it may sound.In 1996, Afghanistan was a country destroyed almost completely by years of civil war. Its infrastructure was wrecked, the dams were idle, roads chewed up, cities bombed largely into rubble, its central bank defunct for years and its national currency – the Afghani – left without any monetary authority to back it up. At least four separate currencies circulated in parallel as media of exchange in Afghanistan back in 1996, depending on the region. Its economy was largely run by smugglers and racketeers and no fixed investment worth mentioning was operated anywhere in the country. Less than a million students were enrolled in schools, mostly males and hardly any higher education system...Read more

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