International media coverage of Afghanistan might be waning, but that doesn’t mean a number of the country’s pressing issues are going away anytime soon. Here are five reasons why Afghanistan still matters:
that the Afghan government could have deployed to manage its development financing and balance of payments issues.
Even before the Taliban’s takeover last month, Afghanistan was heavily aid dependent, with over a third of its GDP drawn from foreign funding. With half a million people displaced in recent months, the UN said it’s a number which would grow if health services and the economy further disintegrate. Haqqani emphasised the group does not want to turn the clock back 20 years. “We will start building on what exists today," heThe Taliban have been under scrutiny by the international community to see to what extent they act differently from their first time in power during the late 1990s, when they banned girls and women from education and excluded them from public life.
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