A Disappointing Afghanistan Fact: The Value of Land Grabs Peaks Seven Billion Dollars

Aug 15, 2018 | Shokrullah Amiri
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Insurgency is a dilemma that has been linked to the name of Afghanistan for years with the drug mafia, corruption and now, unfortunately, land-grabs — finding its way rapidly to become the fourth most challenging encounter for the people and government of Afghanistan. Statistics previously published to the media by the Afghan government authorities show that more than 320,000 hectares of residential and productive agricultural government lands have been grabbed by 18,822 individuals, which include small-land grabbers who have sheltered themselves, to the mass grabbers who developed it, distributed and resold to their followers.