‘Taliban earns more from trade tax than drugs’: Kabul regime won’t ban poppy but will however still struggle to get enough revenue

What’s Taliban’s take from poppy cultivation? How does it compare with other sources of revenue? David Mansfield, independent socio-economist who has long studied rural livelihoods and poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, explains the mechanics of Taliban’s...

from Times of India Opinion https://ift.tt/3CAA44K