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Fall of Afghanistan: widespread corruption blamed

Afghanistan's former finance minister has blamed the fall of the government on corrupt generals pocketing money to pay phantom soldiers and taking payments from the Taliban.

Corruption at the heart of the Afghan government that went on for decades, so claims the country's former finance minister. Could this be one of the reasons why the country fell so quickly to the Taliban?

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大象传媒 World Service

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