The toppling of Afghanistan’s pro-western government and re-establishment of Taliban control has handed the running of the country’s formal economy over to the Islamists.
Yet this task will not be completely alien to the militant group, which has operated a parasitic shadow administration across a swath of Afghanistan over the course of its 20-year insurgency.
Much has been made of the profits the Taliban reaps from the opium and heroin trade, but significantly larger sums are derived from a range of other activities, notably levies on goods such as fuel and cigarettes passing through the landlocked country of 40m people.
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