Hamid Karzi’s presidency in Afghanistan has been full of questions regarding competency and trustworthiness. According to Associated Press accounts, Karzai has admitted he normally takes cash from Iran and also the United States – bags of money, in fact. This raises the question most of the world wants answered: whether the players getting the best Karzai cash can buy. Resource for this article – President Hamid Karzai says he takes bags of cash from Iran by Personal Money Store.
Karzai just takes money for ‘official presidential expenses’
Once or twice a year, “donation” are given to Hamid Karzai from Iran. These gifts are usually $700,000 to $975,000. Karzai said that the U.S. govt has known regarding this Iranian assistance for many years and that Washington also sends the Afghan palace “bags of cash.”. Numerous suspect that Karzai gave this details to everyone in order to keep his chief of staff from getting in trouble. Umar Daudzai also had been getting money from Iran, reports the new York Times. The cash has been paying for high-ranking Taliban officials. Supposedly it also went to Afghan lawmakers and tribal elders.
Cash is coming from ‘several nations’ says Karzai who thinks it’s because there is a lack in revenue in his office
The CIA World Factbook explains that Afghanistan’s economy had been really bad for a while. Then the Taliban regime in 2001 fell which helped. The country is “highly dependent on foreign aid, agriculture and trade with neighboring nations.” This is even after all the international assistance being given as aid. Such is the claim, despite the well-documented facts that Afghanistan is the largest illicit opium and hashish producer on Earth. A lot of cash comes from the opium and other illegal drug trade which is why Karzai wouldn’t be that interested in stopping it. This has the Obama administration frustrated with the country. Today’s Views show a poll done in Afghanistan. This shows that the majority of the public think Karzai has not done much for the country. The reason for this, say various sources on Wikipedia, isn’t what individuals assume. Many poor farmers are being forced to get into trading drugs since poppies are the nation’s number one cash crop and the economy in Afghanistan is mostly agriculture based. The money doesn’t all go to them either. It’s split up. Numerous think that this is because they aren’t sending Hamid Karzai his cash like other nations are.
Citations
Associated Press
newser.com/article/d9j2lc780/afghan-president-says-iran-and-us-give-bags-of-money-to-help-its-office.html
The Odora
theodora.com/wfbcurrent/afghanistan/afghanistan_economy.html
Today’s Views
todaysviews.com/?p=781
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanistan
The U.S. “double game”
youtube.com/watch?v=ir6IEOQ_4Go
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