The Taliban movement forbade buying and selling dollars due to a sharp depreciation recently national currency – Afghani. This was reported by the Afghan AMAJ NEWS.
According to him, on the largest foreign exchange market of the country “Sarai Shahzada”, which is located in Kabul, the dollar has already reached 114 Afghan, although at the beginning of August amounted to about 80 Afghani.
Taliban representatives are not commenting on the current situation.
Despite the Talibans taken at the present moment, the economic situation in Afghanistan remains extremely difficult. As follows from the joint report of the Food and Agriculture United Nations published in late October) and the UN World Food Program, more than half of the population of Afghanistan (about 22.8 million people) from November to March may face a critical food shortage. This occurs in many respects due to the fact that the Taliban has access only to 0.1% (of $ 9.4 billion) of the states, since their significant part is frozen US.