Afghanistan: Funding Terrorism: Taliban Earns $15M a Year from Pistachios in Afghanistan

Mar 14, 2017 | John Walsh, International Business Times
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The Taliban has earned $15 million annually from pistachio crops in the Afghanistan's northwestern Kushki Kuhna District. The terror group profited from the region’s two pistachio forests spread over 32,000 hectares of land than any other organization, the district’s administrative chief, Syed Mohammad Chishti Modudi, told Pajhwok Afghan News Monday. Local farmers accused the Taliban of stripping the region of its much-needed export commodity after its terrorists raided the pistachio forest in July 2016 and illegally harvested up to 40 percent of the country’s output that year, Modudi said.