Taliban Accused of Looting Mines in Nangarhar, Smuggling Minerals to Pakistan

Taliban Accused of Looting Mines in Nangarhar, Smuggling Minerals to Pakistan

The Taliban is illegally extracting talc and other minerals from Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province and smuggling them into Pakistan, according to local sources. The post Taliban Accused of Looting Mines in Nangarhar, Smuggling Minerals to Pakistan appeared first on KabulNow.

Local sources in Nangarhar say that the Taliban are “looting” the talc mines and other mines in the province and smuggling them to Pakistan. A source in the “Spinghar” district of Nangarhar province told the Ettelaat Rooz newspaper that Taliban commanders are illegally and unprofessionally extracting the talc mine in the “Tangi” area of the “Wachkot” village of this district on a large scale and smuggling it abroad. He said that the talc extract…