Highway Robbery on Major Afghan Road

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IWPR, 25 September 2012
‘Local officials in Afghanistan’s Laghman province are taking tens of thousands of US dollars a month in fees and taxes from drivers using the Kabul-Jalalabad highway, and the way the money is collected indicates that it is being pocketed’, writes the Kabul-based news agency. We also find the reporter’s name remarkable: Inqilabi Zwan (‘Revolutionary Youth’).