Taliban Aims To Boost Exports to Ease Crisis As Foreign Aid Ends
- Humanitarian aid cannot alleviate deepening Afghan poverty
- Deputy minister Stanekzai blames U.S.for the economic crisis
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The Taliban administration is working to boost exports to save the Afghan economy from collapse, with a government official saying international humanitarian aid alone won’t prevent the country from slipping deeper into poverty.
“Humanitarian aid cannot solve Afghanistan’s economic problems. The only way to achieve economic self-sufficiency is to boost domestic products and export them abroad,” the Taliban deputy foreign minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai told a gathering in Kabul Sunday.