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Obtained Document Shows Taliban Earns Up to 2M Afghanis per Day

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The Taliban militant group earns up to two million Afghani from the sources that included narcotics, mines, Usher & Zakat (Islamic taxation), collection of electricity bills, and woods smuggling, according a document obtained by Ariana News.   

The obtained document shows that the Taliban earns revenues via narcotics from 23 provinces in the country, in between five provinces are considered as smuggling areas for the group that include southern parts of Helmand & Kandahar, northeastern parts of Badakhshan and western parts of Farah & Nimruz provinces.

Mines are another lucrative source of funding for the Taliban that includes azure mine in Badakhshan, marbles of Helmand & Kandahar, coal and salt mines in Takhar, Raghistan gold mine and Chromite mines in Logar province.

The government also confirms the Taliban income sources via narcotics and mines, stresses to cut the group’s funding. 

 “Taliban has a lot of incomes via narcotics and mines in the country and it is worrying,” the Deputy Spokesman for the Presidential Palace, Dawa Khan Minapal said.

According to the document, the militant groups in Afghanistan including the Taliban earn about 20 million Afghanis from the mine sources.

A government source on condition of anonymity, meanwhile, told Ariana News that the Taliban collecting more than 600 million Afghanis annually from various sources that include two million Afghanis on average per day.

“We are attempting to reduce the Taliban’s access to these income sources and we have done this up to now,” said Dawlat Waziri, the Defense Ministry Spokesman.

It comes as the Taliban has increased scale of attacks since last year or so, targeting government facilities and military compounds across the country, mostly through costly suicide and car bombings.

By  Shakib Mahmud and Ali Azghari

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IPL: Sunrisers thump MI in record breaking match

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It was raining records at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Wednesday with the hosts Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) clinching a 31-run victory over Mumbai Indians (MI) in Match 8 of the Tata Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024.

Sunrisers’ batting rewrote the record books on a batting belter after the posted 277 for three.

SRH now have the highest team score in the history of the IPL – beating Royal Challengers Bangalore’s (RCB) 263 for five from the 2013 season.

In reply, MI made a spirited effort, and at one stage, were contenders to do the near impossible. In the slog overs, the enormity of the target proved a bit too much, and SRH clinched victory, but not without numerous nervous moments.

To put into perspective the carnage we witnessed – Heinrich Klaasen’s 23-ball half-century was the slowest fifty of the SRH innings.

Travis Head, playing his first match for SRH, raced to the milestone in 18 balls. Abhishek Sharma got there even faster – in 16 balls – to record the quickest fifty by an SRH batter in IPL history.

While Sunrisers notched up the highest total in the 16-year history of the IPL, just as incredibly, Mumbai Indians almost paid them back with the same coin, their batters coming out with a nothing-to-lose attitude.

The sixes kept rolling off the Mumbai bats too, helping them keep up with the asking rate for most of the chase, eventually however, they ran out of steam and finished on 246 for 5, the highest IPL total in a losing cause.

As ESPNcricinfo reported, never were more runs scored in a men’s T20 match (523). Never were most sixes hit in a men’s T20 (38). At the end of the close to four-hour six-fest, only two bowlers returned with an economy rate of under ten an over.

Thursday, March 28 : Match 9

Thursday’s match at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur sees Rajasthan Royals go up against Delhi Capitals.

Fans in Afghanistan can tune in to Ariana Television to watch the match live from 6.30pm. Alternatively the match can be screened live on arianatelevision.com

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Magnitude 5.2 quake jolts Afghanistan

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An earthquake measuring a magnitude of 5.2 on the Richter Scale jolted Afghanistan on Thursday afternoon, the National Center for Seismology reported.

The quake was at a depth of 70km and epicentered in the mountainous north-eastern area of Ashkāsham.

The jolt was felt across the region including in Kabul, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan

There were no immediate reports of any casualties.

In October last year, over 2,000 people were killed when four 6.3-magnitude earthquakes struck in Herat province.

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Bayat Foundation helps needy families in Balkh

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As part of Bayat Foundation’s Ramadan aid campaign, needy families in Mazar-e-Sharif, in Balkh province, received much needed food packages this week.

The aid package includes rice, flour and oil.

“In continuation of Bayat Foundation’s assistance, this time also a quantity of food such as flour, oil and rice was distributed to needy families in Mazar-e-Sharif; Inshallah, these contributions will continue,” said a representative of the foundation.

Needy families that received aid packages expressed their gratitude but called on other aid organizations to help the needy during these difficult times.

“Many thanks to Bayat Foundation, I thank Bayat Foundation for helping the needy and poor people of this region,” said a recipient said.

“I would like to thank Bayat Foundation for their cooperation in helping the needy in this holy month of Ramadan; it is hoped that traders and charities will do such sustainable work,” said another recipient.

Bayat Foundation is one of the charitable organizations that has played an important role in helping the needy in Afghanistan over the last two decades.

In addition to distributing aid packages to needy and vulnerable families, it has carried out numerous other projects, including the construction of health centers and schools.

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