Hamid Karzi’s presidency in Afghanistan has been riddled with questions concerning competency and trustworthiness. According to Associated Press accounts, Karzai has admitted he normally takes cash from Iran and the United States – bags of cash, in fact. Some sources suggest that this anticlimactic revelation begs the question of whether Iran and the U.S. are getting what they paid for.
Hamid Karzai takes money for ‘official presidential expenditures’
Hamid Karzai gets about $700,000 to $975,000 in gifts as “donations” from Iran once or twice a year. Washington also sends the Afghan palace “bags of money” based on Karzai who claims the United States has known about the Iranian assistance for some time. Numerous suspect that Karzai gave this info to everybody in order to keep his chief of staff from getting in trouble. Umar Daudzai also had been getting cash from Iran, accounts the brand new York Times. The money has been paying for high-ranking Taliban officials. Supposedly it also went to Afghan lawmakers and tribal elders.
The lack of revenue has gotten ‘several nations’ to give Karzai cash
The CIA World Factbook explains that Afghanistan’s economy was really bad for a when. 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. Karzai’s govt has been criticized by the Obama administration for not eradicating the illegal drug trade, but thinking about that the poppy crops generate a good deal of cash, sources indicate that it’s no shock that Hamid Karzai has been a less-than-eager enforcer. The public in Afghanistan shows Karzai as an ineffective ruler Today’s Views explains. The reason for this, say various sources on Wikipedia, isn’t what people assume. As Afghanistan’s economy is agriculture-based – and poppies constitute the nation’s number one cash crop – poor farmers are reportedly being forced to feed the drug trade. But the farmers aren’t getting their slice of the pie. 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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