Afghanistan: Taliban Again Raise Coal Prices amid Booming Exports to Pakistan

Jul 16, 2022 | Ayaz Gul, Voice of America
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Afghanistan’s cash-strapped Taliban government has tripled prices for coal in less than a month to raise revenue from its mining sector amid a lack of direct foreign funding and booming coal exports to neighboring Pakistan. The spokesman for the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum in Kabul, Esmatullah Burhan, on Saturday told VOA that each ton of coal is priced at $280.